Before Us

1978. Nadia dies after suddenly falling ill at her farmhouse, and the whole family rushes to her side in despair, with Renzo feeling the most anger. Luigi comforts Eloisa as she has a panic attack and tells her that he is Renzo’s son—and therefore her cousin. Gabriele urges his daughter not to let Luigi slip away, just as he did with Margherita. Eloisa and Luigi then reunite and read a letter from Grandma Nadia that Gabriele hadn’t had the courage to open, in which she recounts many details of her relationship with her husband. During this family reunion, Renzo and Gabriele find peace with their wives and children. Finally, Davide takes in a young woman who has fled East Berlin, just as Nadia had done with Maurizio sixty years earlier.