The Hogar is a place of paradoxes: an Italo-Argentine religious centre for single mothers, where the precocious motherhood of young adolescents coexists with the chastity vow of the nuns who take care of them, amidst rigid rules and Christian love. Sister Paola is a young novice who has just arrived in Buenos Aires from Italy to take her perpetual vows. Lu and Fati, both 17, are little girls abruptly transformed into mothers. Delpero investigates the theme of motherhood with profound delicacy, through the portrait of three women whose lives intersect and influence each other.

Maura Delpero (Bolzano, 1975) studied literature in Bologna and Paris-Sorbonne, specialising in dramaturgy in Buenos Aires. She made her debut in documentaries with Moglie e buoi dei paesi tuoi (2005), Maternal (2019), his first fiction film, was in Locarno, while the following Vermiglio (2024) was awarded in Venice.