Island of S. Erasmo, Venice. Antonia is a lawyer navigating joys and difficulties of single motherhood. Discouraged by an increasingly precarious freelance career, she spends her mornings searching for alternatives. Her daughter Lena attends a mixed-age class at a primary school at risk of imminent closure. These isolated circumstances drive the little girl to roam the island and come into contact with other forms of animal life inhabiting that space between land and sea. As the water rises and the citizens of Venice begin to face up to their future, Antonia tries to reinvent the meaning of her legal practice.

DIRECTOR’S NOTES:
Each of us may wish to contribute to this world in own ways, in the most disparate fields. In this film, we dive into the machinery of rights and laws, regarded as tools to be used in fighting for life. Driven by her restlessness, Antonia is compelled to reinvent the very role of jurisprudence and to transform the uncertainty of her freelance profession and the prescriptive nature of law… into a journey of singular / plural setting in motion. Antonia’s character enlights a floater of reflections connected to the relationship between our sense of impotence and the climate change; between the time of care and the time of work; between our isolation and our fragile democratic bonds, in an age of uncertainties and tensions. Whilst Antonia tries to rationalize the outcomes of modernization, her daughter Lena melts and resonates with everything that is around her. Both of them try to counter the sense of isolation embodied by the streets and the canals of Sant’Erasmo with their complicity and with a sense of participation capable of dispelling the fog around them.