Giuseppe Gaudino sets his mysterious and beautiful film in the precarious town of Pozzuoli, situated beneath a volcano and alongside the ocean near Naples. After a series of earthquakes and aftershocks, the home of the fisherman family of Don Salvatore is condemned and they must relocate, like many families before them. Perhaps it is the continuous temblors from the area's long-buried past that dislodge other refugees: mythical and historical figures from Sibyl to the musician Pergolesi and the martyred Artema are fluidly intercut with the contemporary story; no one rests in this shaken landscape. These haunting, ancient stories of longing and disappointment are told by the boy Gennarino and echoed in the growing animosity between Gennarino's older siblings and their father as the family's unity slowly breaks apart.-Kathy Geritz