Diary of a Mountain Priest

Father Filippo Lanci is a young and restless spirit. With his unconventional ideas about the catholic faith and the religous art he makes he was implicitly punished by the church leaders and placed far from urban regions. His parish is situated in a small and remote village under the slopes of “Gran Sasso d’Italia”, the highest mountain of the Apennines in Abruzzo. After the summer holidays, just few elders and families keep living in the stone houses. During winter when the level of the snow is high, the village is cut off from the outside world. Therefore the secular churches get more and more empty, the alleys and the roads get deserted, the pastures and the valleys get silent while the wind roams uninterupted. This is a hard exiles’ internment, where loneliness sometimes has more grip on life than faith does. In such hard conditions among simple but valuable traditions, the young priest will try to cope with his own contradictions and difficulties towards Catholic rules, finding at last the way to understand himself and his own relationship with God.