Mia bowls Paolo over with her vitality and thoughtlessness ("who the father is isn’t that important", she says to him casually), and she recognises that he is a good soul. Paolo works in a furniture workshop, has his head screwed on, and is suffering from the break-up of his long-term relationship with a man who left him to start a family. Mia, with her pink hair, tattoos and flashy jacket with a Madonna stitched on the back, is six months pregnant, a singer, and homeless.
From then on, they take care of one another, like two guardian angels. Their eyes meet in the darkroom of a club, right after she faints in his arms.
Their encounter is clearly one of those for which you don’t know what the outcome will be. "When something happens to you, do you know straight away if it’s a good or a bad thing?", Mia asks Paolo.
#And then there was light the movie movie#
Four years on from South Is Nothing (a film which was selected for Berlin and Toronto, among others, and awarded at Rome), the 36-year-old Calabrian director is back, straight into theatres from 9 March with a subtle and reflective on-the-road movie which ponders the future, what it means to be a parent, and the borders in nature, and is led by two of the most sought-after actors around right now, Luca Marinelli ( They Call Me Jeeg, Don’t Be Bad ) and Isabella Ragonese (who recently starred in Sun, Heart, Love ), as they embark on a geographical and emotional journey from the North to the South of Italy, in a relationship that breaks every rule in the book. What’s more unnatural, a woman who doesn’t want children or a gay man who dreams of becoming a father? Arguably neither, as Fabio Mollo suggests in his second feature, There is a Light ( Il padre d’Italia).