The Open House

A house in Turin becomes the setting for an extreme event: the end-of-life journey of a young therapist whose inner research crosses the frontiers of science, moving beyond religions, dogmas, and conventions. Martina discovered she was ill just as she had found her vocation, in her early thirties: helping others through irony and a radically honest way of sharing what is most intimate. The film emerges as an expansion of this impulse, embracing her invitation to explore forms of consciousness that remain largely uncharted. It opens a dialogue between experts, scientists, and shamans, unfolding a shared reflection on the limits of existence and understanding life itself. The film is conceived as a process that confronts the taboo of death within an “open house”, a space where family and friends gather in close proximity, immersed in a field of forces where fear, courage, fragility, and pain become a powerful collective experience of transformation, as well as an act of love. What emerges is a story that is at once deeply personal and profoundly universal, where science and imagination converge, and the intimacy of human relationships challenges the boundaries of reality.