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The Experimental Witch tells the story of Athena whose adoptive parents take her home to Lebanon from Romania. Her mother, Samira soon finds that her daughter has premonitions and struggles to accept this. Samira's fears and lack of understanding of Athena's roots lead Athena to set out on a journey of self discovery and in search of her birth mother. Athena feels that once she finds her, her desire for a deeper understanding of the empty feeling she holds inside will disappear. She struggles in her relationship with Samira, her adoptive mother who can not understand Athena's desires to find her true identity and gypsy heritage. These two women take you on a journey into one of the most complex relationships life gives us; the one between a mother and daughter and their desire to be loved and accepted for who they really are.

Four love stories. Two partisans, lovers betrayed by an informer, are remembered and re-examined by their daughter many years later; a fugitive saved by two couriers crosses the canals of the Po Delta; Micol Finzi Contini returns to her childhood haunts in Ferrara, the Jewish cemetery, and her house, a ghost who relives in the pages of Giorgio Bassani's novel; and lastly, a fisherman from Pila is caught in his own net of illusions, when he thinks that the loveliest woman in the village, who is married, can no longer resist him.The canals and wetlands, the fog and the plains, Ferrara: holdovers unsullied by time's passing, the backdrop to phantom love stories and desires poised between life and death.

When Irena Ruppel, a fascinating Slovenian woman, arrives in a valley of the Po river, she is hosted by a man of that area, Gabriele. She seems to know a lot about Gabriele, whom at the same time is intrigued by this woman who doesn't speak Italian but she seems to understand everything that happens around her. Once she leaves, she gives a weak clue to Gabriele: her name and Tolmin, the name of a locality at the borders between Italy and Slovenia. Gabriele can't help it and goes to look for her, taking a journey that will bring him to the truth about his parents, himself and this woman who threw his calm life into confusion.

An oriental woman loved by a European troubadour. A married man haunted by his wife's betrayal that one day led by overthrowing all odds. A father and daughter wrapped in the shadow of incest.

With Extraliscio, the tradition of liscio Romagnolo, the one that "you dance until light cracks in", until people wants to dance, meets new sounds and new places. Romagnolo folk opens up to new horizons, and Romagna meets the world.

Ana, Elena and Micaela: three Romanian women who have been living and working as caregivers in Italy for a while. When the first two loves their jobs, they begin a voyage through the Marche and Polesine in search of work. Solidarity, friendship, shared memories and hybridized traditions in communities immersed in Italy, Emilian farmers, Eastern Orthodoxy in Fabriano, Romanian workers. Memories of communism and women's empathy in Elisabetta Sgarbi's third feature film, a cross between documentary and fiction.

Per soli uomini (For men only) Along the Po di Maistra, in the extreme regions of the Po Delta, at Cà Pisani in one of the valleys created by the mouth of the River, three men live on a fish farm: Gabriele, the owner; Claudio "Sgalambra"; Giorgio "Bertinotti". The valley is a world apart, an ecosystem kept alive by the water flowing through it and the obsessive monitoring of these valley men, always in motion, vague but observant walkers along the river.