About
Logline
While a bewildered young woman, hidden away from the world for years by an overprotective mother, is forced to integrate into society by a zealous team of doctors who are frustrated by their patient’s unresponsiveness and puzzled by her fierce determination to be reunited with her captor, it is only through the violent encounter with a suicidal fellow patient and haunted socialite who kidnaps her to help him die, that she truly awakens to life, and while he against all odds starts falling in love with her and helps her find her mother, she is forced to look at her own past in a different light, which ultimately will set her free.
Director's Notes
Porcelain Girl is a tale about the resilience of the human spirit and the strength of fragility.
The story of Porcelain Girl is based on real-case stories of children that have been locked away from the world for years, mostly in unbearable and inhumane circumstances. Some of these children are so damaged that they never find their way back to a normal healthy life.
By now we probably have all heard about these real-case stories of locked up children that unfortunately have been in the news recently. People's reaction to those stories are mainly two: who could be such a monster to lock his own children up for years, and: thank goodness that the child has been saved, it is so lucky to be free.
In the case of Porcelain Girl however I would like to show a slightly different perspective:
Maybe it is not a monster but a mother who sees the imprisonment as an extreme act of love, trying to protect her child for this world, wanting to keep it eternally innocent.
And the fact that porcelain girl – to everyone's astonishment – does not want to be in this world but wants to go back to where she was, raises the question: maybe it is not such a nice world that we are in today, and maybe we are not so free as we believe to be.
I want to make this film because I believe there is a porcelain part in all of us: we all have our frailties, we all carry our past with us and we all try to break free from it. For me the story of Porcelain Girl is an example of how we can break free of our past and find a certain peace and freedom in the present - no matter how tragic our past has been.
Setting
The story of Porcelain Girl is set in and around Merano, a city in the Italian Alps, in the bilingual province of Alto Adige - also known as South Tyrol.
