Tomaso Bruno is a twenty-year-old Italian like many others, restless, wealthy and traveller, who left for India at the beginning of 2010 in search of himself: there he will find the death of a friend, a baseless murder accusation and the life prison sentence. But during this time in the cell Tomaso resists, remembers, imagines, reads and writes thousands of letters, in which he tells how he is finding his own freedom within four walls of injustice. Today, in September 2014, we return to India with his father and mother to experience the three days of waiting before the last, definitive ruling of the Indian Supreme Court.

“Freer than before” is not an investigation or denunciation film, but a sort of coming-of-age story written by the protagonist. And it is precisely from the thousands of letters that Tomaso wrote from prison that Adriano Sforzi‘s directorial work begins. We use the “film tool” to give space to the story of Tomaso Bruno and Elisabetta Boncompagni, which most people in Italy, including us, had never heard told. Conversely, there is an entire town, Albenga, which has rallied around them. It seemed like the best way to be close to Tomaso and Elisabetta and their families, so that their experience leaves a tangible mark.