There Was This Woman

Daniele Mencarelli & Beatrice Bandiera

A woman runs down the street asking for help, but no one understands her, no one stops, everyone turns away and thinks she is crazy. She is not looking for food or money, but wants someone to follow her. But where? Only one guy, maybe crazy, who knows, follows her to a gas station, where, in a dirty, hidden corner, another woman has given birth to a baby: a dark scene, yet so full of light.

After entrusting mother and child into safe hands, the boy’s trail was lost, but they are said to have met him in the four corners of the earth to announce to the people that “The Saviour is born, the Son of God and of the flesh of man”.

The mother of all stories: the birth of a child, who is King, in poverty and solitude. Not in a hut, but at a petrol station, not shepherds, but distracted passers-by. A Christmas story that shines like a star and points the way, like a comet.