3/19

Kasia Smutniak plays Camilla, a career-driven lawyer whose life centres around her work. Divorced, with a teenage daughter she hardly knows and in a casual relationship with a married man, her life is fine as it is.

But one rainy night, after an argument with her boss she crosses the street and is stuck by a scooter carrying two men. She is only slightly injured but one of the men dies.

Shaken by the event, she begins to re-assess her life and her relationship with others. Not a new theme, but writer-director Soldini has come up with a beautifully paced film that carefully plots her emotional journey which feels true.

One complication that haunts her is that the dead man is likely an illegal alien and nobody can identify him.

Kasia Smutniak is wholly believable in the lead role. Well-worth seeing.