Facing Windows

“Desire knows no bounds.”

In a Rome apartment block, Giovanna (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) spends her days worn thin by her work and a marriage that has gone grey. Her husband Filippo (Filippo Nigro) brings home an elderly man who has lost his memory, a Holocaust survivor, and she takes on his care. Ferzan Özpetek sets this against her growing attention to the man in the window across from hers, and a life she has stopped looking at.