Film Commission Torino Piemonte

Happiness is an emotion we cannot buy, but that we can search for and conquer, sometimes through very simple objects and actions. "When I play the jew's harp its vibrations massage my brain dragging me into a state of happiness", says Spiridon Shishigin, the master from Yakutia. On a trip from Sicily to Yakutia, Diego the filmmaker himself starts his journey with meeting the last iron forger working on the slopes of Mount Etna. He is at work on the instrument. Then we head north where Anton Bruhin in Switzerland shows Diego (and us) the links of the instrument to space. We travel then to Austria where it is used for alpine odes to such an extent that it has become a UNESCO "World Cultural Heritage". In Hungary Diego meets the world's most important constructor of jew's harps and his son who plays it in a techno pop band. We then finally reach Yakutia and its iced flatlands: here it is the national instrument. Women, children and men of all ages play it as it brings happiness. Diego is welcomed as a mythical hero. The film reveals the use, myths and legends of this tiny instrument, spread throughout the world as a symbolic key that can open our mind and soul.