Excerpt from an interview with Simona Facchini, lead actress of the film "The sky of the moon" by Massimo Fagioli, which was broadcast on the television programme Telesalute on 19th May 1998.

Question: Is it the story of a vagabond?

Simona Facchini: No, not exactly...

Q.: Is it a love story?

S. F.: Describing the story of this film in a few words is truly difficult because its distinctive feature is precisely its lack of action, of facts, of plot. In any case, if one has to sum it up it's the story of the inner journey of a woman who has acquired an enviable professional and social identity and has an equally accomplished companion, since both of them exercise their professions with great success. Yet despite all this she feels she has lost something. She almost suspects that her very achievement may even be a failure, and so she has the courage to search for what she has lost or thinks she's lost. Instead of turning to alcohol or prozac or falling into a depression she has the courage to se Ãarch and in this quest she runs into, we might say, a kind of strange character who seems to be a university professor at the beginning of the film, a scientist, and who gets compounded with the figure of the vagabond by the end of the film. Obviously there would be lots to say. This vagabond somehow represents a kind of primitive realisation, almost at the boundaries of animality, and perhaps she felt that having lost this dimension was the basis of the sense of emptiness from which she suffered.