Directing his first film after his work with Bellocchio, Massimo Fagioli gives us a fresco of human reality and the dissatisfaction which is often a part of it. Rather than a story the film offers a series of pictures at the heart of which we see a successful woman who feels that she is missing "something" which she cannot quite understand. The images are fundamentally more important than words in this story. They take us where words cannot go. They can suggest, evoke, move us, and give us pause for reflection. This is why the dialogue seems more like a series of monologues than a conversation. The music also has a role to play which goes beyond a musical accompaniment. The characters are balanced between form and idea, stereotype and substance, between the nudity of their physical existence and an ideal embodied in a vagrant without a face, to signify that ideas have neither identity nor conscience; they inhabit the dimension of the intellect, where being and its "corporal wrapper" cannot find a place.

The man and the woman are shown not only in their essential and affective aspects, but in their activities. They are defined also by their occupations: she is an architect and he is a psychiatrist. Although the professions are very different in many ways, there is a similarity. An architect constructs and therefore responds to a typical psychological need of human beings to construct. Behind every artist there is the desire for immortality. They see their building or painting as a personal document which will remain and make them immortal in some way. "The sky of the moon" is a film which wants to communicate certain ideas and pose certain questions, by means of the magic of the movie screen.