IL CUORE IN SCENA - UN'AIDA DA TRE SOLDI

There is chorus of psychiatric patients being treated with music. There is a psychiatrist with a passion for melodrama, Denis Gaita. There is an idea - put a weird and fascinating re-reading of Verdi's Aida on stage. This is the origin of The Three-Penny Aida, a musical play that has moved and amused many audiences. The Ethiopian slaves are played by the patients. They live in a city garbage dump. They are persecuted by three little pharaohs played by very good-looking children, but they end up in triumph when they are ransomed. This documentary tells the story of the process that brought the show into being. It also presents pieces from the protagonists' lives, as well as those of the mental health workers, volunteers, and those involved in the project for months who made possible a clinical, social, and cultural ransom for so-called "social monsters".

"The film is also the story of the chance we all have as human beings to learn to live with others, to find each other, and to understand each other in a way that goes beyond labels. This can happen in that «no man's land» that music takes us to on the borders of normality and diversity" Carlo Concina, Cristina Maurelli).