At Disperata, a small and godforsaken town in Southern Italy, the melancholy mayor Filippo Pisanelli feels terribly unfit for his role. Only a love of poetry and his passion for the literature lessons he gives to prison inmates admit a chink of light into his general state of depression. In jail he meets Pati, a small-time criminal from his own town. Pati and his brother Angiol...
A fascinating immersion into the incomparable culture, past and present of the south-eastern Italian region of Puglia, this documentary also offers a wide-ranging insight into the development of the Cruise 2021 collection it inspired. Watch as Maria Grazia Chiuri explains her connection to this.