Said Mahran (Lorenzo Baglioni) is a man of Algerian heritage. His
father, Hamid (Mohammed Hanifi) is Algerian, but having emigrated to
Italy thirty years prior, Said and his brother, Amir (Amir Ati), were
born in Florence and have been living in Italy their entire life. Said
has never once visited Algeria and considers Italy his home, but having
never been granted certified citizenship his family continually has to
apply for working visas. Their legal ‘acceptance’ is temporary.
When industrial businesses begin to go under, layoffs and closures
ensue. Hamid’s boss commits suicide and Hamid loses his job, which
in-turn results in the entire family faced with expulsion from Italy
within fifteen days. Angered by this injustice Said relentlessly fights
their case, hiring lawyers and bringing this widespread issue of
dislocation to the attention of the media.
It’s About To Rain is a potent cultural study, covering
the internal drama of a family who have been forced to let go of any
future ambitions and completely change the course of their life, and the
bureaucratic mess that not only affects the second-grade Italian
citizens who are denied connection with the culture, but ALL Italians.
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