Door Left Open

Italy, Varano dei Marchesi, June 1944.
Once, doors stood open and people moved together, like wheat swaying in the same warm breeze.
Then the war swept everything away.
At nineteen, Daniela carries dreams too big for the small world around her.
When Paolo - a boy who has always loved her - proposes before leaving for military training, she hesitates. But a mother's will can crush even the boldest hopes. Three days before Paolo's departure, they marry.
War, however, reshapes everything it touches.
In the military camp where he is stationed, Paolo becomes a man Daniela no longer recognizes: cold, distant, unreachable.
When he returns on leave, she must face a painful truth - the boy she married may have never truly existed.
In a world where fleeing an arranged marriage feels like an impossible dream, life sometimes dares to offer a crack in the wall.
All it takes is the courage to open the door - and walk through it.