Simone Segre, a renowned Jewish surgeon, leads a comfortable- though solitary life in an elegant apartment in Northeastern Italy. Simone’s morals and training are challenged when he witnesses a hit and run and tries to assist the victim. Upon discovering Nazi symbols tattooed on the man’s chest, Simone decides to abandon him to fate. Simone becomes tormented by guilt and surreptitiously finds and reaches out to the dead man’s working-class family, ingratiating himself and becoming embroiled in their complicated lives.
Available to the New England Region.