The American Backyard

Lui (Filippo Scotti) is a young man adrift in a small Italian town, carrying an unresolved guilt. When he rents a room in an old house owned by Flora (Rita Tushingham), he finds himself drawn into the family's tangled past and the secrets buried in the overgrown garden behind the walls. Avati traces the slow pull between Lui and Flora, two people bound by what neither can quite speak aloud.