The Other Half

6/10/2026

I've always felt that the prospect of getting old or infirm and being confined to a care home quite horrifying, however well meaning your cumpulsory attendance is being enforced. Here, we meet the elderly “Gina” (Piera Degli Esposti) who's in a similar situation and whose daughters think she ought to stay put and not attend the wedding of her grand-daughter. She plays their game until they have gone, but then in cahoots with the kindly janitor (Gianni Lilli) manages to escape and make for the venue. Snag? Well she isn't entirely sure which venue she is supposed to be going to, and the first nuptials she attends in church isn't the the right one. Nor is the next, nor the next. Now a little in despair, she alights on “Giacomo” (Cosimo Cinieri) and his dog who offers to drive her around the l