Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dafne's father prowls around the house at night with a flashlight. She doesn't get it. She likes running water, which he doesn't get. They are each trying to deal with their grief.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dafne is trying to get her father to do more than just lie around. She also has some ideas about changing around the furniture.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dafne finds a little memento that seems to ground her. Her dad is having a hard time, though. The lyrics of the song in the background seem to mirror what's going on in Dafne's head.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dafne and her father are on the train together. She seems happy, he a bit less. They get off and start hiking.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Little by little, as they walk and talk, Dafne and her father make discoveries about each other, even deeply personal ones.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dafne doesn't mince words in criticizing her father, but she is there for him, a sort of anchor. It gets late and they need food and lodging.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dafne and her father have dinner at the lodge and make conversation. But then they hear some talking in the other room and wonder what's up.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dafne's father finally has someone to talk to, and describes his feelings when Dafne was born, and how they evolved.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dafne and her father leave the lodge and resume their hike on an uphill trail.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
While they are hiking, Dafne's father gets a curious phone call. It brings up the subject of smoking, which Dafne does not want to let go. Later, they meet up with some forest rangers, and Dafne asks for some first-aid items for her foot.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dafne has no trouble chatting up a storm and making friends with the two forest rangers. She and her father get dropped off near the cemetery.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dafne and her father get to the old family homestead. Dafne goes about opening it up as they talk about her mother and how she loved the place.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dafne has a unique gift for her father.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Caravaggio is a TV mini-series based on the life of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It opens in 1577 when the painter was 5 years old. The plague had just hit and people who were still alive were burning their household possessions.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Some years have passed, and Michele's widowed mother has had some difficult decisions to make regarding her children. One of these is to send 12-year-old Michele to Milan to be an apprentice at the workshop of the well-known artist, Simone Peterzano. Michele has no desire to leave home and family.
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