Alessandra Bonarotta

'Human Voice' is based on Jean Cocteau's iconic one woman play of the same name. Set against the backdrop of Naples, Italy, in 1950, this romantic drama tells the story of Angela, (played by Sophia Loren), a woman in the twilight of her years who rides the emotional roller coaster of her last telephone conversation with the man she loves as he is leaving her for another woman. (imdb)

A ten-year old boy has moved with his parents to Rome and he recounts in an essay the story of life inside and outside an enormous condominium called the "Corviale", which resembles Alcatraz, where unknown to everybody death is on the wait.