Paolo Pierobon

The film follows the true story of how a six-year-old Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara, was taken by the Catholic Church following claims that he was baptized by the family’s maid as a baby. While the distraught Mortara family fight to get him back, they find themselves at the epicentre of a wider historical battle between the forces of Catholic authoritarianism and the growing opposition movement.

In the early 1910s, Ida Dalser fell for the future Italian leader Benito Mussolini, supported him through unemployment, married him, and bore his son. Losing touch during World War I, they meet again in a hospital, where she also discovers he had married another woman in the meantime.