Las hermanas Materassi

Teresa and Carolina Materassi are two sisters in their fifties who have always been together and who earn a comfortable living as embroiderers and seamstresses of fine lingerie in a small town on the outskirts of Florence. Through his hands pass the trousseau of all the marriageable girls of the good families of the outskirts; their fame as excellent craftswomen has earned them the prosperity of their business, the incessant parade of the ladies of the Florentine aristocracy and curia, and even an audience with the Pope. It wasn't always like this. The Materassis had to bear from a young age the consequences of having a spendthrift and spoiled father who squandered the family patrimony. They only had their talent and ability to sacrifice to respond to creditors and maintain the estate, now converted into a sanctuary of work and virtue. But their self-sacrifice and renunciation have also turned them into two beings exiled from life. A young nephew, Remo, entrusted to their care by another sister who has just died far from the family, falls into this orderly regimen, which at times seems like a tightly closed room. The vitality, the mystery, the cheerful irresponsibility and, above all, the beauty of the boy cause a cathartic turn in the lives of the sisters, and the counterpoint between both ways of being in the world will give rise to moments that distill a subtle and incessant comedy.