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After forty years of honored service in Rome, the elementary school teacher Michele Cortese manages to be assigned to the Cesidio Gentile Institute known as Jurico: a school made up of a single multi-class school, with children aged 7 to 10, in the heart of the National Park of ‘Abruzzo. With the help of vice-principal Agnese and the children, he overcomes his “metropolitan inadequacy” and becomes one of them. Then, one day, the news arrives that the school, due to lack of enrolments, will close in June. Thus begins a race against time to avoid its closure in any way. This is the story told by Riccardo MIlani in his new film, ‘A world apart’, in cinemas from 28 March. The cast includes Antonio Albanese, Virginia Raffaele, Sergio Saltarelli, Alessandra Barbonetti.