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The film is freely based on the novel of the same name published in 2009 by Elvira Dones, from which it derives the main themes and part of the setting. Hana is an Albanian orphan, who lives with a mountain man married and with a daughter named Lila, her age. In that context, the woman […]

The novel is divided into two geographically and culturally specular parts: the northern mountains of Albania, immovable in the precepts of tradition, and the USA, a space of rediscovery and liberation of identity. Gender identity, first denied and then reconquered, is the conceptual connection of the novel: Hana's rebellion against the burrneshë code serves as […]