Film Commission Torino Piemonte

It happens only in Summer. When the air is warm and dry, the Scirocco wind rises from the South-East, thin red lines on the horizon. Fires. Sicily burns every Summer since forever. As a child, every night of my Summer holidays, I was there, out of my house, observing those motionless and red darts on the hills. In my memories, my family and I were in danger, because of those red lines on the horizon. As a child, fires were given to me as natural phenomena. They were like tsunamis, or earthquakes. Ino is a farmer who lives in the most remote Sicilian place, in a ruined house, under the shadow of a colossal wind turbine. Ino lives in a world where fires are spontaneously generated. A world where fires are monsters, which burn all the wheat fields little by little. Fuochi comes from the impossibility of explaining a natural event, like a disease, like death.