Plot

Against a heavy cloak of secrecy, a 12-year-old girl smitten with her handsome classmate ventures deeper and deeper into the enchanted Sicilian forests to find him, unaware of just how thick is the mystery behind his strange disappearance.

In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance. Only their indestructible love will be able to bring her back along.

Smitten with Giuseppe, her tall and handsome classmate, Luna, his 12-year-old secret admirer, is deeply sceptical about his disappearance when he inexplicably vanishes into thin air from their small village. Finding hard to swallow the fact that her friend is now gone and against a heavy cloak of secrecy, Luna will take matters into her own hands to find the missing boy, driven solely by the courage and passion of youth. However, as the brave girl ventures deeper and deeper into the gloomy and enchanted Sicilian forests, there's no telling just how thick is this mystery. Will Luna ever reunite with her blond Romeo, Giuseppe?—Nick Riganas