In Kim Rossi Stewart's profound and touching directorial debut, ALONG THE RIDGE, two young children and their father form a strangely united and courageous family after being abandoned by the most important woman in their lives, their mother and wife. Through all the family's bungling imperfections, good intentions, inconsolable loneliness and fury of emotions, the unspoken love between father and children keeps their bond strong.
The story is seen completely through the eyes of eleven-year-old Tommy, with his sister Viola, at times a merciless bully, and his father Renato (Rossi Stewart), a seemingly harsh and unjust disciplinarian. For the three, an almost routine peace has settled over their motherless home until Stefania (a heartrending Bobulova) suddenly reappears just as recklessly as she had departed, upsetting the precarious equilibrium again.
ALONG THE RIDGE (not the literal translation which is grounded in a line of dialogue that invokes a soccer term) won the CICAE Award at this year's Cannes Film Festival where it screened in the prestigious Directors' Fortnight section and won Best Debut Feature (Rossi Stewart) and Best Debut Role (Morace) at the Italian Golden Globes 2006.