Ida is a married woman in her late thirties who lives in Milan and works at a radio station. Her mother wants to renovate the family apartment in Messina to put it up for sale and asks her daughter to sort through her things to decide what to keep and what to throw away. Surrounded by the objects of her past Ida is forced to deal with the trauma she experienced as a girl twentythree years earlier when her father left one morning never to return. show more