The action takes place between a village in the Friulian Dolomites and the city of Udine, more ghostly than ever according to the geographies dictated by the various film commissions: a masked murderer leaves a trail of blood; A police detective, Teresa Battaglia, attempts to solve crimes by overcoming the many contradictions she harbors within herself. “Fiori sopra l’Inferno” is the new TV series directed by Carlo Carlei, co-produced by Rai Fiction with Publispei, based on the novel by Ilaria Tuti (Rai1). Teresa Battaglia (Elena Sofia Ricci) is an almost sixty-year-old profile expert who has traveled from the city together with her team, consisting of the main inspector Giacomo Parisi (Gianluca Gobbi) and the young inspector Massimo Marini (Giuseppe Spata). The alleged killer lives in the forest, moving like a “ghost” and leaving macabre traces of his path; Clues to be interpreted as coded warnings, like pieces of a mysterious jigsaw puzzle. There’s not only crime to solve, but something even more insidious: Teresa Battaglia must face the first symptoms of an illness that threatens to seriously affect her investigative work.
After shedding the nun’s clothes, Elena Sofia Ricci faces a new interpretive adventure: she presents herself as a hard, unkind, rejecting woman, as if to hide a more fragile and insecure side, as if to deny herself an increasingly invasive frailty hinders his work. Rai fiction has now reached a more than acceptable standard of writing: however, getting children to act is not easy, especially when they are carriers of social “messages” (victims of abuse by indifferent and often violent adults); when on their fragile shoulders the burden of indistinguishability between good and evil is shouldered. The lesson of François Truffaut’s 400 strokes is far away.