Canvas Lounge: Welcome to the mountains

The primary school teacher Michele Cortese is about to start a completely new life. After teaching for 40 years in the urban jungle of Rome, he requests a transfer to an idyllic village in the Abruzzo region to teach the last 7 schoolchildren of a small village school. He finds it difficult to get used to the snow and icy cold and to give up his Roman habits. In the dedicated Agnese, he finds an understanding colleague. With her help and thanks to the lively children, Michele gradually manages to acclimatize to the mountains. Everything seems to be turning for the better when an unpleasant piece of news arrives: the school has not reached the required number of students for the next year and is to be closed forever. A fate that many rural communities share. A race against time begins to save the school and thus the future of the village. Current TV news inspires Michele with a clever idea...