In 2003, she is 23 years old, attending university, and living in Montescaglioso, a town in the province of Matera. But the reality of this place feels constricting to her, and she is looking for something that will overturn her future prospects, even though she doesn’t yet know what it is. Then, from Canada, a boy arrives and everything changes: for Maria, it’s a turning point. Today, twenty years later, speaking from a small town near Toronto, she tells us what this uprooting has meant for her, the need to reinvent herself, the importance of connections with people and her homeland, but also how crucial it is to give direction to one’s life, which doesn’t necessarily have to be the one dictated by Fate..