'The Other Side of My Sleep' is a poignant half-hour drama that is both touching and often funny as it explores the complexities of voluntary euthanasia and a displaced Italian family's struggle with cultural differences and the need to belong. It was inspired by director Raffaello Degruttola's loss of his father and grandmother.

 

Teresa wants to die. She's done everything a good Catholic woman is meant to do and taught her children well the old fashioned Italian ways. Now, it's her time and she longs to be reunited with her husband. She's tired of living. Tired of her deathbed and the indignity of illness and old age.

Each dream takes her a little closer...

Our feisty Italian grandmother is not easy to love. Her age, experience and ill health has liberated her from the confines of politeness. Now, she longs to be liberated from this mortal coil. But are her bickering children Marco and Maria ready?​​​

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