A writer's need to maintain an appropriate amount of professional "distance" from his or her subject; the journalist in question here is Giovanni, a late adolescent with a flair for journalistic correspondence.

Mara is a new schoolteacher from Tuscany. Her arrival affects the inhabitants of the village: she is beautiful, alone, and different. She begins a relationship with Hassan, a well-integrated Tunisian mechanic, but when she anticipates her departure for Brazil, everything changes. Giovanni is a late adolescent who wants to become a journalist: he observes what happens in his small village and secretly writes for a local newspaper.—francyrosa