A World Apart

After 40 years of teaching in the metropolitan jungle of Rome, primary school teacher Michele Cortese moves to an idyllic village in the heart of the Abruzzo National Park, population 1800, to teach at a tiny school with only a handful of students aged seven to ten. He quickly has trouble adjusting to the local culture to entertaining results but gradually adapts, thanks to the school’s friendly vice-principal Agnese and its spirited pupils.

However, just as all seems well, unwelcome news arrives: the school has failed to meet its student enrolment quota for the next year and will be forced to close. So begins a race against time to save it whatever it takes.

“A precious jewel. An exciting journey to discover the natural wonders of Abruzzo and the human challenges that animate small mountain communities that captures the heart and soul of the viewer.” ~Il Messaggero