Tenderness

Lorenzo (Renato Carpentieri), a retired lawyer fresh from the hospital after a heart attack, climbs to his top-floor apartment in Naples and finds a young woman locked out of the one across the hall. Michela (Micaela Ramazzotti) has just moved in, and her easy charm gets past the grumpy misanthrope's guard. Gianni Amelio follows a man who has lived apart from everyone for years, now finding out he can still feel for other people.