Il treno dei bambini

In 1946, Amerigo leaves his neighborhood in Naples and boards a train. Along with thousands of other southern children, he will travel across the entire peninsula and spend a few months with a family in the North; this is a Communist Party initiative aimed at rescuing children from poverty after the recent conflict. With the wonder of his seven years and the cleverness of a child from the alleys, Amerigo shows us an Italy rising from the war as if we were seeing it for the first time. He entrusts us with the moving story of a separation—an original pain that cannot be avoided, as it is the only way to grow.