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(FOOTSTEPS IN THE DISTANCE)

(THEY SPEAK FRENCH)

(APPLAUSE)

(INDISTINCT HUMMING)

(THEY SPEAK FRENCH)

(CHORUS HARMONIZATIONS)

(THEY SING A SONG IN CHORUS IN FRENCH)

(INDISTINCT HUMMING)

ELISA: Hi, Dad.

Sorry, huh. Was I a little late? - HI.

At that time?

(INDISTINCT HUMMING)

I prepared something different from the usual sandwiches.

Uh... Gnocchi.

But you've always hated cooking.

I... tried to remember just like mom made them.

- Excellent. - Yes?

I swear, delicious.

(INDISTINCT HUMMING)

(THEY SPEAK FRENCH)

If that's okay with you, I would prefer to speak Italian.

Whatever you want, this is your space.

Uhm, okay.

I really don't know where to start.

Some start by talking... of the violent side,

instead others... leave from distant memories,

but the important thing here,

it's up to her to decide where to start.

As I think you already know, I am aware of the fact I remember very little.

Sometimes I have flashes of some episodes...

...memories that came back after, and that... is...

...in the days following the event,

I didn't know what happened to my sister... nothing.

I arrived at the trial as if I were there by mistake.

"Would I have killed my sister? But what are you saying?

I had the impression that they were talking someone else's, not me.

And when did some memory return?

I spent the first few years in prison passed through a psychiatric hospital.

There with a good psychologist,

I started to remember something...

...but I remembered it vaguely.

I didn't know if they were my memories or the memories of something

that I had heard at the trial.

Then... the psychologist took me on my sister's grave and...

...and there for the first time I saw the image of fire.

Of my sister who was burning.

Look, I understand what you're feeling.

I wouldn't want to influence her, but maybe it could start from...

...a memory that comes back to her frequently.

A lived situation, even far away,

but that in perspective of the story

which has been done in these years, has become more significant,

compared to what happened.

Hmm...

Do you mind if I get up?

Yes, of course, as I told you, it's his space.

- You don't have to ask my permission. Mh.

My mother didn't want me...

...he told me often, very clearly.

"I did everything to lose you, I was taking the stairs,"

"I used to lift huge weights, but no way, you wanted to be born."

When did he tell you this sentence?

Hmm...

The first time I gave it to him-I gave it to him I heard it was from her friends...

...with whom he had a coffee from us.

He was afraid I would be born with a malformation,

given his age.

When I was born my mother had 45 years old and...

...and I always remember her sad and in a bad mood.

I think she went into depression after I was born, without knowing it.

That's why I was saying that everything was fine.

But there were many things left unsaid...

...and this was true both at home that outside.

It's a strange little town... they all know each other,

everyone knows everything of all the others...

...and appearances matter a lot.

Everything must look neat and clean, reassuring...

..everything has to be perfect.

And did this apply to her too?

In a certain sense, yes.

She wanted to... do everything to be able to please others?

Yes, unfortunately.

And today?

This desire to please others... are you still trying it?

I don't know, it's hard to say.

AND...

...who with me?

During this meeting?

I would not know...

...can be.

Mrs. Zanetti, the essential condition

because these meetings help him to build an intimate truth

and personal...

...is that she be as sincere as possible.

If she lies knowing she is lying, all this work is useless,

for her obviously, but also for my research.

The results would be false, false and deceptive,

and worse still...

..she will end up being more confused than before.

It's been since I was a child that no one ever believes me.

Sorry if I was inappropriate, and...

...it was my duty to point it out.

No... no problem.

(CHIRPING)

(WAKES UP)

(THEY SPEAK FRENCH)

(CHIRPING)

(THEY SPEAK FRENCH)

WOMAN: Good morning. WOMAN 2: Good morning.

Good morning.

(INDISTINCT HUMMING)

(recording) ELISA: I must have had about eight years

and... I saw some shoes in a shop in the center...

..they were red, very beautiful.

When I read the price... I have to be wrong,

I had read 29 francs,

but then at the checkout, when I was with my mom,

we found out that the price was 129 francs.

So my mother, so as not to lose the face, he bought them anyway.

Then when we got home, he told me...

..of all colors.

ALAOUI: If you remember the words what did his mother say?

ELISA: She was very angry, he called me spoiled,

of the liar... he didn't want to believe me

when I told her that I had just misread the price.

She accused me of deceiving her, of having lied to her.

But the next day at school, everyone was looking at my shoes.

I was so proud...

..and I said it was a gift of my mother.

I said it with pride.

(THEY SPEAK FRENCH)

FATHER Here.

ELISA: How did you know? why did this book interest me?

Ottavio recommended it to me, the bookseller.

Did you tell him it was for me? - No...

..well, he understood it.

I don't say anything and he doesn't ask.

Listen, Dad, I...

...I decided to start a series of meetings with a criminologist

who holds three lectures here at university.

"Meetings"?

And for what?

It's not for an expertise like in the old days of the process, is...

...for a study

that this criminologist is conducting for years.

I think he'll want to make a book about it later.

And you are the one who has to study?

No, he also met other inmates.

Don't worry.

What could happen?

So maybe I can understand it too. a little more.

I remember that it made you suffer meet these people,

criminologists, psychologists, put it small,

but so much so that, enough, you closed yourself off and didn't speak anymore.

It was a long time ago.

I'm better now.

MAN: He's doing much better.

(INDISTINCT HUMMING)

FATHER: Come on, it's late. FLORIST: Don't worry.

KATIA: Hey, dad. - Oh, are you still like this?

I'll get dressed here, don't worry.

And you all tell me "take it easy", I'm obviously not at peace.

It will all be fine.

Yes. Go and see where it is at. your sister, come on.

Yes, maybe a little further here.

- Nail. - Finished? - Yes, thank you.

FRANCK: You're always late. - Hi, Franck.

Help me with the bow tie.

Are you excited?

- Not very much. I don't believe you.

You're nervous and your neck is sore all sweaty.

Katia, are you still like this?

The dress is here. - Let me see.

It's the graduation one, you liked it a lot.

I liked it ten years ago instead.

Elisa?

I don't know, it's locked inside, I tried I knocked and he answered me rudely.

Go see for yourself, tell her to hurry up.

I go.

(KNOCKS ON THE DOOR)

Elisa, can I?

Yes.

Are you still like this? Aren't you getting ready?

Yes, I'm getting ready now.

Can I dress up for you?

Yes.

What's wrong?

Nothing.

You have a face...

I said I have nothing.

Are you sorry that Franck has not asked you to be a witness,

True?

Be his witness, Elisa.

- I don't care. Come on, let's go. - Don't get involved...

...Understood?

As you like.

ELISA: Thinking back to my family It made me confused.

And... and maybe a little anger too.

What do you mean anger?

I agreed to work in my father's company,

but... it wasn't that at all what I wanted to do in life.

It refers to carpentry of his father?

What did he inherit with his brother?

Yes it is, it's there that's where it all started.

It hadn't been my idea...

...it was my brother's project.

For him... it was his world, not for me.

I tried to make it mine alone because I wanted to please him.

"To please him."

All my life I've been searching to adapt to...

...to what I imagined it to be the desire of others.

If I know... what people they expect from me

and I can make it happen,

then I have the feeling that others consider me,

that I exist in their eyes.

It's just this way that I no longer feel invisible.

Invisibility and anger, started from this today.

And... maybe these feelings were already appeared

when he talked about his mother.

He remembers other times when...

Yes, with my father.

He had placed great trust in him in me.

He was convinced that his wishes corresponded to mine,

that... my destiny was in the family business...

...I would not know.

Actually, he never imposed anything on me. Nothing...

The day he signed me up to the accounting course,

I could have... gotten up and leave...

...but I didn't.

We can say that I am... freely obliged.

"Freely obliged", a beautiful expression.

A beautiful oxymoron.

Yes, I freely obliged myself to do what he wanted.

Join the company as soon as you finish the studies and...

..and in the end that place became the cause of all that

what happened.

What do you mean, can you... explain it to me?

After I started working,

I found myself between the anvil and the hammer,

my father on one side and my brother on the other

who were discussing how to manage the company.

Until my father, exhausted, he sold the business to us.

At that point, my father demanded that it was me...

...to have 51% of the shares...

...and that I was the administrator unique.

I accepted...

...I was probably 20 years old, maybe...

...but I wanted to live up to it,

that my father saw that I could do it, that I was capable.

Then my brother started with his delusions of grandeur,

he ordered tons of wood...

...he dreamed of building a new shed on the land

of family.

It's obvious that he doesn't either I was able to say no.

What was his relationship with his brother?

Franck and I were very close.

Allies, so to speak.

When I was little, it was the only one who played with me.

He always picked me up... he gave me kisses...

...we laughed together.

What is your relationship now?

Nobody.

When my father decided to...

...come here to visit me as often as possible possible, my brother...

...asked him to choose between him etc.

"If you choose her, forget about having a son".

My father kept coming to find me

and my brother... he doesn't have them anymore... addressed the word.

And my father never saw him again his grandchildren.

He talked about his mother, of his father and his brother...

...but never about his sister.

Because for me my sister doesn't it no longer existed.

For a long time now.

When I was little, I was more attached to my brother than to her.

Then when I was 15,

she went to live her life, alone.

We grew up with a certain idea of family, of being united,

and she rejected all of this.

And I wanted it.

So I built a wall between us, me on my side and she on the other.

She came closer to us again,

when the company was about to go in bankruptcy... to help us.

AND...

...with your father, can I ask you? what are you talking about?

when is he coming to visit her?

We never talk about...

...of what happened, if-if that's what he means.

Our relationship has begun after... after the fact.

Sometimes I think we should do this, but... he never talks about it,

so... I'm not saying anything. - Sure, I understand.

Hmm...

I'm sorry if I interrupt. his story, but...

...I think that... out of respect from me and her, towards sister...

...we should start saying "homocide".

We no longer say "the fact".

She committed a horrible act, irreparable...

..and we must not forget it. Do you agree?

Good morning.

- Good morning. - Good morning.

ROOT: Can you make me a coffee? Black, strong?

Can you give me that muffin too, please?

I met his father at the station,

but I don't think he has me recognized

because I was in civilian clothes.

My father has always been a little distracted.

She could have come closer.

My father always likes to talk with some Italians.

I didn't feel like it because...

...some articles have come out about her and... I didn't know

whether he had read them or not.

But they say he can work now. out...

...the legal deadlines have expired, can apply.

They can rest assured...

...I have no intention whatsoever to ask for semi-liberty.

(REGGING)

ELISA: Katia, we have to go.

You should go back to the doctor,

that gives you something so you don't get sick vomiting... every time you eat.

To make me say it for the umpteenth time what is stress?

As soon as I calm down it will pass.

Come on, get ready.

MOTHER: An appointment to show the house in the evening?

But how does he do it, what does he see in the evening?

He works during the day, he can only see her in the evening.

Why don't you go with them?

No, there's no need.

Dad, stay here, it's better if you stay with mom, huh?

FATHER: As you wish.

KATIA: Then it seemed like this to me a good person on the phone,

this lawyer... lawyer?

- Damasio. Damasio, right.

KATIA: Come on, let's hope that finally this evening the girl makes up her mind

to buy the house...

..so we put a nice stone there above all this story.

There she is. It must be her.

Come on, let's go inside the house.

Let's turn on the lights and when he arrives he will see us.

(ENTER NUMBER ON KEYPAD)

(THEY KNOCK AT THE DOOR)

Elisa?

How did the meeting go? with the lawyer last night?

Oh, are you listening to me?

- Dad, I'm sleeping. - But I called you a thousand times.

Sorry, I didn't hear the calls.

Where is Katia?

Mhm, I don't know where it is.

Will be...

...she will have gone back to sleep at home.

I do not know, the lawyer was late,

she said she would stay there waiting for her.

He said he would call you, didn't he do it?

And she left, why? Did you have an argument?

You know how Katia is...

He sent me a message...

..she said she went back to sleep At home

and that the lawyer never arrived.

And let's call this lady, maybe he had a setback,

what do I know, let's set up another meeting.

I don't have his number...

...I always called her from the phone in Katia.

And call your sister.

Okay, I'll call her.

(ANSWER MACHINE)

It appears detached.

He'll be sleeping.

Lucky her that she can sleep until late.

When he wakes up he will call you.

Hi, Dad.

- How are you? - Fine you?

Well.

Eli, what's up?

What's wrong?

I heard that the newspapers have started talking about myself again.

Don't think about it, let them say.

You care about me, I don't even notice it.

Anyway, there is good news, right? You could ask out.

When the time comes we will understand.

Look what I brought you.

I hope you like it.

Have you seen Franck again?

Don't mention it... you know your brother.

Clara gave them to me last week last, when we saw each other...

..grandparents understand each other. - They've gotten really big.

You know, with the criminologist...

...we're talking a lot about the past.

About mom...

..of the family, of Franck...

..about me and you.

It hasn't always been easy between us, right?

(CHIRPING)

(INDISTINCT HUMMING)

Good morning.

(DARK MUSIC)

At 20 she became an administrator unique in the family business?

Yes, that's how it is...

...and when it all began to go wrong,

nobody asked me how I felt.

Everyone accused me.

"How is it possible, how could you, what have you done?

For my brother too it was me to the person in charge.

And the word "fail", "to have failed"...

...what feelings does it bring up in you?

I couldn't stand being considered a failure in the eyes

of my brother and my father.

I felt the failure of the company inside me...

...it burned deep inside me.

And my brother continued to repeat to myself that it was me

that I had ruined the company, you understand?

That it was me.

Do you know what hurts me the most?

It's just that...

...if I had told my father:

"Dad, I need help... I can't do it"...

...maybe the company, in the end, it would have failed anyway...

...but everything else would have gone in another way.

But I was obsessed with the idea to be considered the cause

of all our evils.

And that's when I got the idea to pass the blame on

about my sister...

...that's where I thought of the letter.

What letter?

A letter I wrote al computer

with a completely different story invented,

I pretended to be her

and I said it was her to manipulate me.

So he wrote a fake letter, pretending to be Katia?

Yes. - That's it, huh?

- And then he sent it to his father? Yes, I posted it myself.

And so in this letter... Did Katia say she had manipulated her?

Yes, I wrote that he had me manipulated,

that had... that had done to me open an account in his name...

..and that is why the company was failed.

That's how I got myself into a trap alone...

After sending the letter, my son this:

"Shit. What do I do now? Something's not working."

"What do I do with Katia?"

"How do I convince her to support the version of the letter"

"that I wrote, signed in his place?".

And when he wrote this letter...

...was his sister still alive?

Yes, I wrote it...

...when she was sedated and locked up in the house for sale.

I swear I had no idea of what I had to do.

Um... Excuse me, but...

...because he chose his sister, was he in conflict with her?

No... no, not at all.

No, she was living her life, if it was...

...she had moved away from the family...

...had nothing to do with with us.

During our last meeting she said

that... he really wanted it because of this.

(DARK MUSIC)

Listen...

...I don't know how he will take the proposal what am I about to do but...

..as I told you in general,

I always predict a period of three meetings per inmate.

But she's just getting started to remember and...

...I thought a lot and I think that it is... useful to delve deeper...

...and continue our meetings.

What do you think?

(VOICE)

FRANCK: Here it is.

This explains why he is not responding on the phone, she ran away.

MOTHER: No. Katia wouldn't do that... Mom. Don't you want to understand?

He wrote it clearly,

Katia ran away with the money which he took from the crates

of our society. FATHER: Elisa...

..is what is written here true? One day Katia came to the office,

seeing me worried for the progress of the company,

she offered to give me a hand.

I felt the weight of responsibility...

..she told me not to worry, that...

..that she would have been close to me but...

..it's clear that he manipulated me. FRANCK: And how?

He convinced me to open an account jointly held,

connected with the company

from which he made payments that only she could do.

FATHER: Why don't you-don't you tell me? spoke?

ELISA: Because I trusted... she's my sister.

Besides, you too are… always trusted her, or not?

As we have trusted you, entrusting the company to you.

Here are the results.

We need to go to the police immediately...

FATHER: Enough.

First you blamed Elisa, now Katia...

..think about what you've done with your delusions of grandeur instead.

I don't put the police inside one thing

which concerns our family, let's be clear.

There must be an explanation.

We're waiting for Katia to come back.

He will decide how things went.

ELISA: Cow.

How are you feeling?

Where are we?

You're at home, stay calm.

Here. Drink this.

But drink it all, come on.

(SINGING IN CHORUS)

(recording) ELISA: I see myself again at the wheel of my car,

I was going back and forth like a madwoman,

between the new apartment of my parents

and the old house...

..where I kept my sister locked up and sedated with Lorazepam.

I had to keep everything under control,

..I had to invent every day an excuse to disappear...

..while my parents were looking for my sister...

..and then pretend too to look for it with them.

(DARK MUSIC)

Zanetti?

Everything OK?

Zanetti, what's going on?

Yes, sorry. I'll be right there.

It made me worried.

Luckily I was on duty.

By the way, Karbusi was... a tomb,

he didn't make a fuss, he worked for two.

Karbusi cares a lot about me... in short, we help each other.

Zanetti I-I can make it match the image I have of her

with... with what I've read in the newspapers.

I can't believe it that she could have...

Yes.

I was able.

WOMAN: Mrs. Zanetti?

Cow?

Is anyone there?

Is anyone there?

Madam, it's me... I'm Elisa.

Ah, Elisa.

Um, I was worried, I saw the smoke

and I was about to call the fire department.

With all the weeds that have formed

since you put it up for sale the house and you left...

I came for that, to remove weeds and burn them.

Brava.

It's-it's all right, I'm finishing and going.

I was scared.

No, everything's fine, Thank you for your interest.

Well, between neighbors...

Oh my God ex...

..well I'm sorry that you sell the house, eh.

ALAOUI: "Since we started the meetings,"

"I'm trying to put together the memories,"

"after my conviction,"

"thinking back to all the facts described from the judge,"

"the only explanation that I could give myself,"

"it was that I had killed my sister in a fit of rage."

"While now, my memory has changed..."

"..it's like I'm reliving those moments."

"I feel emotions that I had removed."

"I was just scared, it wasn't anger,"

"it was a fear that took my breath away."

"Fear of being discovered,"

"fear of what he would think my mother,"

"my father, Frank, if Katia had told them the truth..."

"..that it wasn't her to have written the letter, but me."

"With all that that would have resulted from it."

It's the first time that speaks of fear.

Because it's the first time that I see things this way.

And it's harder to admit that it was fear...

...rather than a fit of anger.

He had the courage to reopen the drawers of his memory with me.

No courage, professor...

...no courage.

Maybe I just did it... just out of necessity.

I've never had the courage in my life...

...just fear...

...especially about myself.

- Are you afraid of yourself? Yes, of myself.

Because I had the strength to take away someone's life,

because I wanted one of my own.

And the most terrible thing was that when I got home,

after killing and burned my sister...

...I put my head on the pillow and I felt at peace.

A peace I had never felt...

...and that... and that I have never most tested in life.

She's starting to change.

However, if we admit...

...that the spring what triggered it was...

...fear, this...

...this gives the idea of ​​a sort of plan.

A "plan"?

Yes, as if in his head he was thinking

that killing and burning his sister,

all the troubles, all the problems that he had created, would disappear

or... they would be dissolved.

And from a certain point on, it acts on fear...

...on the never-ending wave of his feeling

to be... unmasked...

..let others discover, according to his perception, obviously,

that she is a failure. This word is the key to everything.

The failure of the carpentry, becomes his personal failure.

She said it herself, in a previous meeting.

Sorry, but I'd like to stop here. for today, if I may.

We have arrived... at a moment crucial, at a turning point.

I want to leave.

As you wish.

I thought about her a lot in these last few days.

I've read his books...

...she writes about other criminals come me.

And I asked myself:

"What drives you to meet people like me?".

Your question makes me wonder... deeply.

But... right now I think it is more important to talk about it

which is emerging from his words.

He still keeps talking about me and not her.

I asked her what drives her.

Mrs. Zanetti, you are to take his story back into his own hands.

I am convinced that those who commit an irreparable act like his,

must not remain stuck to the crime for which he is convicted.

He still doesn't answer me.

Goodbye, professor.

ELISA: They question you, they follow me everywhere.

There must be a reason... the police are not stupid

and we're not stupid either. FATHER: Will you stop?

No, I won't stop, I won't stop, I won't stop!

FATHER: Leave me at the bank... the appointment with the director.

MOTHER: Close.

And then... it was you... the last one not to see Katia, right?

When did you go for that lawyer

to show the house.

From that moment on we no longer have it. Katia,

so tell me what happened? - I told you a thousand times...

Your father will have called you dozens of times that evening there,

why didn't you answer? - Because I didn't hear.

Why didn't you answer?

I didn't hear the calls, I told you!

You don't understand what this means! - Lower your voice.

- I'm not lowering my voice! Shut up. - You shut up!

So, you have to tell the truth.

You don't want to tell them? That's fine. Tell us!

To your father! Eh? Who always defends you.

But I know you, you know, I know you!

I can't take it anymore, look, I can't take it anymore.

(CHOKING SOUND)

(SPIRA)

ROOT: Zanetti... is everything okay?

Zanetti?

Everything OK? - Yes, everything is fine.

(SPEAK IN FRENCH)

(THEY SPEAK FRENCH)

FATHER: Hello. - Hi, Dad.

- You're early. You too.

Look, I don't have... time today.

What happens?

There's a girl at the bar who... is she was sick and didn't show up.

Sorry, I'm so sorry, If I had known beforehand I would have warned you.

No problem, if you have to go, go.

Yes - See you next time.

All right.

I brought you some muffins... girls do them,

those of the pastry shop, they are very good.

Thank you.

So maybe you can eat them during the journey...

Excuse me. Don't worry.

- No, sorry. These things happen.

Yes, but...

The important thing is that you're well. - Yes... come on.

- HI. Hi, Dad.

HI.

(CHILDREN'S TALKING)

Zanetti?

What are you doing here?

Has the interview finished?

Yes, I would like to go back.

- How come? - I-I don't feel very well.

I'll have her taken to the infirmary.

No there is no need, I prefer to go back.

- All right, I'll call the female officer. No, there's really no need.

Go, he's coming now.

(DOOR OPENS)

(THEY SPEAK FRENCH)

(CHIRPING)

(THEY SPEAK FRENCH)

ROOT: Good morning, Mr. Zanetti.

Good morning.

Your daughter won't be coming today.

Again?

He told me to tell her who would like to be alone for a while.

- But are you feeling well? Yes, yes, everything is fine.

Sit down...

...can you give this to Elisa? Some books and a notebook.

Of course. She'll be happy. Goodbye.

Until we meet again.

(THEY SPEAK FRENCH)

GENDARME: Mrs. Elisa Zanetti she showed up at the gendarmerie

to report for theft his sister, Katia Zanetti,

disappeared a month earlier.

This delay in reporting he made us suspicious,

we then searched the houses of the Zanetti family.

Both the one where they lived and the one that they had put up for sale.

At the back of the house placed for sale,

we found the body charred by Katia Zanetti.

JUDGE: And when you found it the body you suspected

by Elisa Zanetti?

GENDARME: Yes, thanks to the bugs. inserted into the Zanetti house,

we heard of an argument between the mother and her daughter.

Hearing the noises of the fight,

we intervened immediately.

Once inside we saw Elisa Zanetti

who tried to set fire to the body of the fainted mother.

JUDGE: How did he do it? with his sister's body.

GENDARME: The mother got away with it. with a small burn,

we arrested the accused

and, from that moment on, he stopped totally to answer

to our questions.

(SPEAK IN FRENCH)

WOMAN: (in the distance) Anais!

Annals!

Annals!

Annals!

(THEY SPEAK FRENCH)

(BURNING BAR)

ALAOUI: Good evening. - Good evening.

Please sit down... Thank you for coming.

- Do you want anything? No thank you.

- Safe? Mh-mh.

Did he want to see me?

Yes.

I wanted to explain to you why I followed his lessons.

I read one of his books...

...which talked about young delinquents.

I wanted to understand, I hoped to understand.

What I would like to know,

what I was looking for in his books...

...I don't think he can... in any way please...

...but I wanted to be sure.

Last winter my son... he was coming home,

after saying goodbye to his friends at a party.

He ran into a group of thugs,

who was bothering an elderly lady who slept on the street.

He came closer... to tell them in short, leave her alone.

He must have spoken to him politely...

...smiling...

...and this smile, they...

...they couldn't stand it.

They have unloaded all their violence against him.

They stabbed him several times...

...and they left him there... to die.

It was the old lady herself to call for help,

in the end they arrested them all.

It was a gang of kids,

like the ones my son is talking about he worked as a volunteer.

I also went in their neighborhood...

...I don't know why.

Maybe...

...what was I looking for...

...maybe know a little more about who had taken me...

...the person...

...dearest to my heart.

It didn't do me any good to look evil...

...as she says... to nothing.

- Did you try to talk to us? - No.

During the process, some of them wrote to me.

I've never read those letters...

...but I didn't even destroy them...

...I was afraid that in the letters I they asked for forgiveness.

The pain and resentment I feel towards them...

...I need them.

They support me, they support me.

Do you understand me?

I wanted to understand. I hoped to understand.

I just felt guilty of my resentment.

She...made me feel guilty.

She has every right to feel hatred and resentment...

...it's legitimate, I understand, but...

..give yourself the opportunity to understand

how... a culprit arrived to do evil...

...can be a way for victims not to get trapped in hatred

that they feel. Without this, discredit their pain.

Only the words of the guilty...

...only the words of the guilty.

Because my son, the victim, does not speak no more.

I understand, madam, his son had...

No, that's enough, sorry.

She is brave.

JUDGE: Let's move on to the reading. of the sentence.

The defendant is held accountable for the crimes of kidnapping

and murder of her sister Katia Zanetti,

as well as attempted murder of the mother,

trying to strangle her and set it on fire.

To clarify the criminal plan of Mrs. Zanetti,

I add that it was pretended Attorney Damasio

to divert the family from selling of the house.

This court for so, taking into account the mitigating circumstances,

as presented in the report of Defense,

of proven partial incapacity to understand and want,

certified by a malformation to the right frontal lobe of the skull,

compatible with amnesia...

..Elisa Zanetti sentenced to a prison sentence of 20 years.

The session is adjourned

and the documents are filed at the disposal of the parties.

(DARK MUSIC)

(DARK MUSIC CONTINUES)

(FOOTSTEPS IN THE DISTANCE)

Good morning.

Thank you.

Thank you for accepting to see me again...

...and sorry if I behaved so bad.

No, it's nothing... don't worry.

Let's go.

Come in.

What I had inside was impossible to say.

Sometimes there are no more words.

There are only facts left.

"My idea wasn't to do them of evil, just to gain time."

"My sister had to temporarily disappear."

"The hours passed, the days..."

"..and I said to myself: And now... and now?"

"Then I thought that I had to convince her..."

"..reveal my plan, what I had thought."

"And for once, just for once in my life,"

"I tried to create an alliance, to ask for help."

"The problem is, when I reduced the dose of Lorazepam….”

"..to talk to her, she started to understand."

"She was furious..."

"..he was ranting at me."

"Then she calmed down..."

"..and affectionate as she knew how to be she told me:"

"Elisa, you're not well, you need help..."

"..let's go to dad's together and let's tell him the truth."

"If he hadn't said this sentence,

"it could be that it would still be alive... maybe."

"I can't know."

"The fact is that the truth he wanted telling dad was..."

"..that I was sick..."

"..and this was not possible."

"At that moment I gave in."

"Katia had made the mistake to look at me..."

"..and he saw me for that that I am."

"At that moment I lost totally in control..."

"..and it all happened automatically."

"I wasn't realizing of what I did, is the truth."

"I just wanted her to shut up."

"I didn't care about anything else."

"I wanted him to stop talking."

"I put my hands around her around the neck".

ALAOUI: Do you want me to read it?

I'll read it out loud because I think that...

...it's important that you listen to what he has written.

Do you agree?

"I put my hands around her around the neck,"

"she managed to free herself"

"and she went out the back of the house."

"I reached her, I put her hands around the neck again"

"and I held tighter."

"So strong that when I left her go, he had lost consciousness."

"Falling to the ground... he hit the head..."

"..and I started to panic..."

"..I tried to help her, but... she didn't react."

"I understood immediately that I had killed her."

"Maybe at that moment, a part of me said to myself:"

"Okay, let's try to save what can be saved.

"Katia is gone now, the letter is in my father's hands,"

"maybe I can still turn it around the situation in my favor."

"There was a can of gasoline for the lawnmower,"

"I poured it over him,"

"then... I lit a cigarette and I threw it at him."

"She caught fire and I can't say if it lasted thirty seconds,

"a minute, a minute and a half... I do not know."

"I just know that during a brief moment,"

"as if I had woken up, I said to myself:"

"What are you doing?"

"Then I took the water hose to put out the fire,

"but it was too late."

"I covered it with a cloth,

"one of the ones we used to cover the wood"

"and I left."

"I came back home of my parents and there,"

"a silence inside me that I don't have never heard again,"

"as if nothing had happened, not even failure."

"Suddenly... everything was intact."

He watched it burn.

Yes.

Was he screaming?

No.

Of course, he had lost consciousness... right?

I pray every day that it wasn't...

...that she wasn't still alive.

That he didn't hear anything.

His testimony is precious...

...but I think we should build a new story.

Starting from the fact that now she... remembers

...and...

...maybe it's possible that... I have always remembered.

There is no amnesia.

I wanted to kill her...

...I wanted to do it.

When he says I'm changing...

...I would really like to be able to believe.

Because I don't like that that I was...

...in conclusion...

...I don't like that one either that I am today.

Listen.

Even if there are some inconsistencies, she started to tell her story.

The more we try to understand together what happened,

the more she will be able to look after you...

..without running away from his responsibilities...

..without being constantly overwhelmed by guilt...

..which is right for her to feel.

And so, in the end...

..will be able to honor the memory of his sister.

(INDISTINCT HUMMING)

(ENGINE START)

(IN FRENCH)

(BELLS RINGING)

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