Villalba is a small village in the center of Sicily that is a typical reality of the Sicilian hinterland. It is characterised by physical and economical isolation, abandoned structures and where people live only on an old age pension.

It's a village that is going to disappear because of the large migration to Albenga, a city in Liguria that is home to a large Villalba community.

Once it was a special place because of its position being Calogero Vizzini's kingdom. He was the boss of the old feudal mafia that had now changed and moved from the centre to the coast.

This film tells, through the inhabitants' words, the story of the village and the current situation and the status of women and life in the main square. Through the nature of the sicilian people, we discover in this remote location it holds all the problems and peculiarities of the whole nation of Italy.

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Giuliano Ricci was born in Milan in 1980. After his University degree at DAMS Cinema in Bologna, he attended Scuola Civica di Cinema in Milan. He worked as a director, scriptwriter and editor for shortfilms and documentaries as “La Comanda” (Filmmaker/doc 2007), an experimental film about the manipulation of food.

In 2009 he directed the film “La Piccola A” which won the second prize at Bergamo Film Meeting 2010.