Lucia Rudini: Somewhere in Italy

In the hills of Cellino, Italy, a young goat-herd named Lucia Rudini watches the Great War arrive on her doorstep. What begins as a life of simple mornings and market trips with her cousin Maria dissolves into something darker as soldiers march through, news of battles spreads, and the weight of conflict settles over her small town. Lucia is seventeen, restless, hungry for a life larger than the one she knows. But when war comes, that hunger transforms into something more dangerous: quiet defiance, fierce protection of her younger brother Beppino, and a stubborn refusal to let fear consume the people she loves. Martha Trent captures the war not through grand battles but through the intimate lens of a girl standing at the threshold between childhood and the adult world's unbearable choices. This is a story of resilience worn quietly, of courage that looks nothing like the propaganda posters, of a young woman learning that protecting her family might cost her everything she's been waiting to become.