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This is a compelling drama about a young woman caught between two cultures. Olga (Marie Colbin) was born and raised in a German-speaking village in the north of Italy. Braving the censure of her somewhat backward and conservative relatives and friends, she marries an Italian from the south and moves out of the village. Though she has taken a big a step away from home, she refuses to speak Italian to her husband or anyone else, sticking with her native German. But on returning home for the funeral of her father she is treated with disdain by her former friends. She cannot adapt completely to her new life, but is now a stranger to her old life as well.