Medea di Portamedina

Summary

From the labyrinthine alleyways of via Portamedina emerges Coletta Esposito, a figure consumed by a maelstrom of despair and betrayal. Her youthful dreams, cruelly shattered by a faithless lover's broken vows, culminate in an act of unimaginable horror. With a chilling resolve born of profound anguish, she extinguishes the nascent life of her infant daughter, a tiny testament to her ruin. The lifeless bundle, a visceral symbol of her shattered trust, is then cast into the hallowed grounds of the churchyard. There, amidst the joyful peals of wedding bells and the oblivious celebrations of the very man who had promised her eternal devotion, Coletta’s silent, devastating protest unfolds, transforming a site of sacred union into a tableau of grotesque retribution and profound, unutterable grief.

Synopsis

Coletta Esposito, a young commoner from via Portamedina, kills her daughter of a few months and throws the lifeless body in the churchyard, where the wedding of the man who had promised to marry her and not that is being celebrated.