by Eleanor Mannikka
synopsis
This is an Italian comedy about a runaway, incognito Pope who makes his way to a village for a temporary stay and tries to bring a few good works to fruition while there. After Pope Leo XIV gets locked out of the Vatican garden one day, he opts for taking off on a small escape from official and bureaucratic burdens. Since he is not in his robes, who's to know? He heads for a remote village in the south of Italy that has no priest. He finds shelter with a former hooker and her mute daughter and then sets to work overcoming the local thugs and repairing a broken aqueduct. Meanwhile, back at the Vatican, the Cardinals are wringing their hands, trying to hide the fact that His Holiness has taken a powder.
characteristics
- Pope
- On-the-road
- Isolation
- Poverty
- Priest
- Village
- Self-discovery
- Responsibility
- Incognito
- Hitchhiking
- Disguise
- Deprivation
- Deafness
- Free
- Friend
