Dreams Live in Trees

1978, when Italy was the first country in the world to abolish asylums, thanks to the Basaglia law. After the closure of a mental hospital in Florence, Anja returns home in the care of her brother Ettore and his wife Lisa. To everyone, she is a difficult woman with mental health problems, who has spent most of her life going in and out of mental institutions. But with the help and sensitivity of her new psychiatrist, Anja slowly begins to adjust to her new life outside the asylum. She meets Libero, a man who goes around delivering vegetables from his garden to villagers. Libero, like Anja, also suffers from mental and learning disabilities. He lives with his mother and is known as "a mad killer." Years earlier he accidentally killed his father and was sent to a criminal asylum where he spent a long period of solitary confinement. Anja and Libero fall in love and find refuge in a secret shack in the middle of the forest surrounded by colorful trees, which becomes a symbol of their love. They face prejudice from Anja's family and the country. When Anja becomes pregnant, her family will do everything to separate her from Libero and prevent the birth of an "unacceptable" family.