SYNOPSIS
Ilaria is fifty years old and leads a scientific project funded by an international NGO operating in the Mediterranean. Following an extreme heatwave, she urgently needs to collect the latest temperature data before leaving for Scotland, where her daughter is getting married two days later.
In a rush, she boards a small fishing boat with Pasquale, the son of the fisherman she usually works with, to retrieve the underwater thermometers before departing. As she dives, Ilaria comes face to face with the devastating reality beneath the surface: gorgonians, down to forty-five meters deep, have been burned alive by the sudden rise in sea temperature — an invisible fire underwater.
On their way back to the harbor, still shaken by what they have witnessed, Pasquale spots the lifeless body of a young woman drifting at sea. What should they do? Alert the authorities and most likely miss her daughter’s wedding, or try to restore dignity to a life that has already been lost?
The conflict that emerges reveals, at its core, two sides of the same tragedy.
