Set on the dusty, sun-bleached Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, just off the coast of Sicily, Respiro is the story of Grazia (Valeria Golino), a mother and wife whose increasingly bizarre behaviour upsets the co-inhabitants of her sleepy fishing hamlet. In fact, Grazia's simmering sexuality makes the rest of the villagers nervous, the final straw being when she releases hundreds of dogs from the local pound. Something needs to be done, and the village banishes her to an `institute' in Milan.
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