Roberto Andò
Viaggio Segreto

A murder with an unknown motive, shrouded in mystery; memories veiled by the traumatized hypersensitivity of two young people who were dramatic witnesses to a family tragedy that left indelible traces on their psyche. It is a continuous intertwining of events that seem to almost explain themselves through a sequence of emotionally charged images, alternating with moments where the lost affection of the co-protagonists Leo and Ale is palpable. A memory, that of Ale, that wanted to erase a truth as atrocious as it is unacceptable about the murder of the mother, which is reconstructed with skillful flashbacks by the director Roberto Andò, and immersions in the memories of Leo, a psychoanalyst oppressed by a past that doesn't leave him at peace and makes him feel all its weight.

Right from the title, "Viaggio segreto" (Secret Journey), one can well understand the director's intent, which is not merely to clarify an unsolved case or simply to reach the theatrical resolution of tension, but rather to make us enter "secretly" into the darkest part of the human mind, a part Freud might define as "on the edge of consciousness"; thus, while Leo travels to the ancestral home, where the crime took place, located in Sicily, overflowing with memories for both the protagonist and the director, the viewer makes a backward incursion into the event, until they feel a part of it, until they walk through the secret alleys of the protagonists' unconscious.

And in the end, an unexpected surprise for the viewer, where the magistrate father of Leo and Ale, who up to that point appeared guilty of the crime, is absolved if only by the public. It is here, in the surprising finale, that Andò subtly brings to light the message of the entire film, which concerns the terrible reality of two "lost children," who, according to the protagonist's final stream of consciousness, in the end, we all are to some extent.