The film, based on the book Io volevo ucciderla by Adolfo Ceretti – one of Italy’s leading criminologists – written in collaboration with Lorenzo Natali, is co-scripted by the director with Bruno Oliviero and Valia Santella. Set between South Tyrol and Canton Ticino, it recounts the true story of Elisa, a young woman from a respectable family who brutally murdered her sister. Imprisoned for ten years, she is gradually led to confront her responsibility through a long series of meetings with a criminologist, an advocate of the so-called “restorative justice” approach.