The life of Fernando, a quiet geography professor, is turned upside down by the mysterious disappearance of his wife. Disoriented and in search of a new life, Fernando decides to leave for Portugal. Here, following a dramatic but providential event, he assumes the identity of a gardener and finds refuge in an old villa. Surrounded by the beauty of the landscape and the humanity of those who welcome him, he begins a journey of inner reconstruction, filled with silences and encounters.
"The Portuguese Villa is the projection of an emotional journey and an internal repositioning, about feeling displaced and out of place, about the political boundaries that determine differences and distances, about the pain of being in the world that accords with incommunicability, which professes clarity without denying thematic stratification, which chooses silence as a language, avoiding both contemplative complacency and didactic rhetoric." (Lorenzo Ciofani)
