The end of civilization has come. A father and his son, a fourteen-year-old boy, survive in a stilt house by a lake. Without an existing society, any encounter becomes dangerous. In this regressed world, the father writes his thoughts in a notebook, but those words remain indecipherable signs for his son. When his father dies, the boy sets out on a journey in search of the meaning of those pages.
Claudio Cupellini (Camposampiero, 1973) is a director and a screenwriter. After a few short films and his 2007 debut film, Lessons in Chocolate, in 2010 he shoots A Quiet Life, screened at Rome International Film Festival. In 2014, with Stefano Sollima and Francesca Comencini, he directs the television series Gomorra. In 2015 he returns to Rome, with Alaska. The land of The Sons made its international debut at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
