In a Naples suspended between reality and the dreamworld, four siblings reunite at the family home after years apart. The poet Giuseppe Acquaviva, who lives in a strange cave overlooking the sea in Naples, summons his siblings — each one of them lost in their own time, their own memories and their own neuroses.Amidst surreal dialogues, photographs raining down from the ceiling, a mysterious little girl who slips away like a memory, and carrier pigeons delivering poems, the film explores family ties, the weight of the past, unhappiness as a creative force, and a growing sense of dehumanisation. Spaccanapoli Times is a suspended, poetic, philosophical and ironic work. It is a film about a time that cannot be mended, about a city that holds everything and forgets nothing, and about how the truth is often hidden in the most absurd details.
Four eccentric siblings reunite after many years at the family home in Spaccanapoli, where time seems to have stood still and memory manifests itself in the form of a mysterious little girl, old letters, photographs and carrier pigeons, in a poetic and surreal journey through unhappiness, memories and unresolved emotions.