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Bare Hands 

Under option: Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Slovakia and South Korea.
Emma is a country veterinarian, a self sufficient 43-year old woman living a hard, solitary life. Giovanni, 14 years old and on the run, suddenly bursts into her life. Emma once knew his parents, Micol and Raphaël. She has tried to forget about what happened between her and Giovanni’s parents, and wants him to leave. But he stays. Little by little, a tentative yet tender relationship establishes itself between Emma and Giovanni.
When Micol comes to take Giovanni back, she senses that the unthinkable has happened between Emma and the adolescent boy. There will be revenge, a court case… but for what reason, and against whom? Is this to denounce a kind of love that remains a taboo? Or is it a way of dealing with a troubled past, with wounds that have not healed?
Bare Hands is the portrait of a tough woman whose life is suddenly turned up-side-down. In this atypical novel narrated through Emma’s voice, Simonetta Greggio addresses a sensitive subject in an uncompromising yet subtle way.

Simonetta Greggio is of Italian origins yet writes in French. Her first novel, La douceur des hommes, was selected as one of the best 25 books of 2005 by the magazine Lire. She published a novella, Étoiles, in 2006 (Flammarion), and a second novel, Col de l’ange, in 2007 (Stock). She also contributed to the collection of short stories, Huit, with Calmann-Lévy (2008).