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A successful lady doctor, Antonia (Margherita Buy) has a stable marriage and lives comfortably with her husband Massimo in an upmarket district in Rome. But when he dies in a car accident, she falls into a deep depression, from which she only begins to emerge when she finds out the horrifying fact that Massimo had been unfaithful to her.
Antonia goes to an address looking for the other woman, Signorina Mariani, but the people at the house won't help her, except that the man who lives there says that Massimo and he were lovers. She leaves, distraught.
But she persists, and she confronts the man at his place of work. He tells her a little more, and eventually she gets invited back to the house. A lot of people seem to live there, including several gay men and a transgendered woman Serra (played by the Turkish actress Serra Yilmaz), and a transsexual, Mara (Lucrezia Valia).
Antonia gets drawn into this community and more or less moves in, with romantic complications and other relationships issues. Later in the film Mara is going to see her grandmother who is 99 years old and isn't aware that Mara has transitioned.
The title means "The ignorant fairies" and refers to a painting that was given to Massimo by his lover. The English title is His Secret Life, which I suppose is more descriptive of the plot.
HF October 2004
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