75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...

Release:

August 12, 2000

Original language:

Italian

Production country:

France
Italy
Switzerland

Producer company:

Alhena Films
C-Films
Gam Films
RSI
RAI Cinema

Spoken languages:

French
Italian

Budget:

3.100.000 $

Denis Rabaglia

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