I started watching this movie only because I am learning Italian and this is one of the very few Italian movies on Netflix (in Turkey). I did not have any expectations and I only knew Benedetta Porcaroli from Baby series. The first half an hour, it was quite boring and I had to give it a break. But when I turned it on again, the rest was completely a fantastic drama...

I watched it crying multiple times, smiling like a silly in some moments, with a curiosity for the last gift, and it was completely worth to wait. Learning that it is inspired from a truestory that is also referenced in the movie, I couldn't keep myself from crying one more time. Nothing extraordinary but a great drama.

(Flash Review)

One could easily assume this would be a sentimental tearjerker but it thankfully wasn't. It took a different approach and could have been really good if I had been more emotionally involved with the characters but they weren't super sympathetic aside from a couple moments. The film revolves around an expecting couple in the midst of a foreseeable tragedy as the mother has a grave illness. Mother and daughter's lives pass only briefly but thankfully mother prepared...you guessed it...18 presents for each of her future birthday that she will miss. On her 18th birthday and in a fit of misguided sorrow, the daughter runs away get hits by a car and the driver is her...her mother....WTF? Que creative timeframe shift. Since she has nowhere to stay in this alternative world, she concocts a story so she can live with her parents from 18 years earlier. Her mother seems like a stick in the mud. Maybe her daughter will be able to bring some of her adventurous spirit to her mother. Watch this interesting scenario play out. The core question is will they learn who they each truly are?

I loved the writing and story of this movie. Things begin one way but take an unexpected turn. Time twists. Wounds heal. Recommend highly.