Vivere

In a respectable suburb made up of row houses Luca Attorre a freelance journalist who struggles to get his features published in the papers is unable to maintain Susi a ballerina reduced to teaching dance to overweight women and Lucilla their quiet and imaginative sixyear old daughter who suffers from severe bronchial asthma They are helped economically by Pierpaolo Lucas seventeenyearold son from a previous relationship Pierpaolo lives in an Art Nouveau house with his mother and grandfather an important trial lawyer of cases linked to politics who rakes in several million euros a year In the setting of a magnificent and incomprehensible Rome both a good mother and a bad one Mary Ann a deeply Catholic student of art history from Ireland au pair for the little Lucilla is caught in the middle