Don't Move

Timoteo learns that his fifteen-year-old daughter Angela has been seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. As Angela is operated on, he gazes out the window and seems to glimpse a woman in the rain, her red heels catching his eye. The vision hints at a past he cannot easily escape.

Following the shocking news, Timoteo's mind drifts into reminiscences about an old affair. These memories begin to color his reactions and choices, foreshadowing the moral conflict ahead. The hospital confines serve as a backdrop to his inner turmoil.

Timoteo sits in a bar on a hot day in an unfamiliar location. Italia, Albanian and wearing red heels, offers to let him make a call from her home. Their encounter marks the start of a dangerous liaison that will pull him further from his wife.

In Italia's flat, Timoteo, intoxicated, rapes her and then pretends to fall in love. Italia reveals a history of childhood sexual abuse by her father, deepening the tragedy of their liaison. The act initiates a chain of guilt and secrecy that dominates the story.

Timoteo tells Italia he will leave his wife Elsa, but before he can fully confess, he learns Elsa is pregnant. Italia also becomes pregnant with his child, binding their fates and intensifying the deceit between them. The revelation compounds Timoteo's moral crisis.

Timoteo cannot bring himself to confront Elsa about the pregnancy, and Italia interprets his hesitation as a lack of commitment. She later confesses that she had their child aborted by a gypsy, arguing it was for the best as she would not have made a good mother.

Disturbed by the unfolding events, Timoteo leaves Italia and returns home to his pregnant wife. The personal conflict deepens as he oscillates between two lives.

Months later, Timoteo, shopping with his wife who is about to deliver, spots Italia in a crowd and runs after her in the rain. He apologizes for the pain he caused, and Italia, though hurt, signals that she understands why he could not leave Elsa.

The next morning, Timoteo offers to drive Italia to her new town. During the journey his feelings for her deepen, and he confesses a desire to marry and settle down with her in the new town. The emotional bond between them intensifies as they travel.

During the journey they share a dinner where Timoteo publicly treats Italia as his wife. That night, Italia suffers severe abdominal pain and a hospital ultrasound reveals a belly full of blood from a botched abortion. Timoteo performs emergency surgery, but Italia dies shortly after.

Timoteo's recollections are interrupted by a nurse informing him that Angela's condition has stabilised. He visits his recovering daughter with his wife, and a figure who resembles Italia seems to appear in the gesture of a hand mirror, hinting at lingering memory.

In a final, symbolic gesture, Timoteo retrieves Italia's red shoe from a locker, the one the funeral house refused to place in the coffin. He kisses it and places the shoe on the spot where he had imagined the Italia-like woman, offering a closing act of thanks and return.