A Question of Family

Amanda De Santis is a single mother with two children—Teo, a troubled teenager, and Bianca, a strong-willed six-year-old. She juggles an unstable job, an absent ex-husband, and an untrustworthy one partner. Consumed by a persistent sense of inadequacy, Amanda feels trapped and eternally inferior to her seemingly flawless sisters, Violante and Flaminia, and their mother, Anna—a woman who embodies an unreachable, infallible ideal.

To protect those she loves—and herself—Amanda starts lying about her imperfect life. During the celebration of her parents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary, the entire family gathers around a table filled with unspoken words, suffocating affection, and long-buried secrets. It is there that Amanda realizes something needs to change. Perhaps the first step is to finally admit the truth about her imperfect life.

Only then does Amanda discover that everyone in her family is hiding subtle fractures, long silences, and  unresolved issues. Her sisters, her mother, even her father all have a surprise in store. And there is nothing like a family reunion to open Pandora’s box of skeletons in the closet.