“Dedicated to You” is a present-day psychological comedy-drama about a woman returning home after having fled her country and dedicated her life to travelling, aware that she has to face her past, confront family and friends and discover the truth that she always tried to escape from. 

SYNOPSIS:

“Dedicated to You” is a present-day psychological comedy-drama about a woman returning home after having fled her country and dedicated her life to travelling, aware that she has to face her past, confront family and friends and discover the truth that she always tried to escape from.

While a high school student during the last years of the Soviet regime, Nia, was expelled from school for having drawn graffiti on the school wall protesting corruption of the school authorities. Her expulsion meant depriving her of opportunity to finish high school and consequently to pursue University. She manages to leave the country with the intention never to come back, and without any attempt to discover who of her five friends betrayed her by informing the school authorities that she was the author of graffiti.

After many years she returns to her home town as she feels ready to confront her friends, to hear the truth and to forgive, though the friends don’t seem to be ready to face the guilt. Every encounter with friends has its flash backs comparing the past and the present. Nia sees their lives as the logical result of their personalities and wonders how her life would had been if she had stayed. She reacquaints with Rita, a housewife with five children but without any social or professional life. Emma, a member of the Parliament, entirely taken by her job and not having time for her family. Ambra, a wife of a millionaire immersed in shopping and consumerism. Dora, a ballet dancer, a bohemian happy with ephemeral pleasure. Ida, a nun, isolated in her spirituality and rejecting the rest of the world.

The confession doesn’t take place, but Nia forgives realizing that the feeling of guilt might be more painful than to be betrayed. This cathartic moment enables her to regain the joy of being with her friends. She also realizes that her life is a logical result of her personality as well. The expulsion from school only put her on the true track. She resists the pressure of her family to settle down and upsets her boy-friend by rejecting his proposal of marriage. She is more convinced than ever that traveling is an essence of her personality and more determined to publish her travel book with her own sketches.