Le ore piccole

Eva is a young translator for Balkan languages. One summer, she is alone in a deserted Rome and by chance meets Nina, a beautiful Albanian girl. The two immediately hit it off. As they are returning home from the supermarket, Nina is run over by a car. At the emergency room, Eva is distraught by the vision of her friend in a coma; she steals Nina's purse and enters her house. There she discovers that the young woman is a professional prostitute. A client telephones, giving her the opportunity of being a call girl for one night, coming to grips with a hitherto unknown part of herself.

"Le ore piccole was brought about by the need to reflect on the idea of an internal rhythm in people which is often independent of, if not discordant with, our existence's historical time, which runs parallel to us. Important and dramatic events happen in short lapses of time, fractions of time, while sometimes indifference and pain can occupy vast temporal dimensions" (N. Fago).