Back Home (TV series) explained

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Genre:

Runtime:

50 minutes

Director:

Riccardo Donna

Producer:

Luca Barbareschi

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Network:

RAI

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Back Home (Italian: La strada di casa) is an Italian mystery drama series directed by Riccardo Donna.

Plot

Fausto Morra is a 50-year old family man, owner of a food-processing plant in Piedmont, Cascina Riva, consisting of hundreds of animals and acres of land. After a car accident, Fausto goes into a coma, waking up after 5 years. During that period, everything has changed: his wife Gloria married his best friend Michele and his plant is on the verge of bankruptcy. Slowly regaining his memories, Fausto realises that his past is vanishing, but he needs to discover the truth hiding behind his own affairs to get his life back. In particular, the disappearance of Paolo Ghilardi, a veterinarian who had accused Fausto of selling counterfeit meat, the night of his accident is shrouded in mystery.^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] Once the case is solved, another mystery surrounds Fausto's family: his son Lorenzo's girlfriend Irene Ghilardi disappears the day before their marriage.^[5]

Cast

Alessio Boni as Fausto Morra, the founder of Cascina Morra, a charismatic man and authoritarian father
Lucrezia Lante della Rovere as Gloria, Fausto's wife and mother of their four children
Thomas Trabacchi as Michele, Fausto's best friend, an agronomist at Cascina Morra
Sergio Rubini as Ernesto Baldoni, Paolo Ghilardi's boss, initially he accuses Fausto of Ghilardi's death, then he helps him to look for Irene Ghilardi, whom he considers as his own child
Eugenio Franceschini as Lorenzo Morra, a dreamer and idealist, he finds his way opening a brewery
Christiane Filangieri as Veronica Nardi, a beautiful woman in a relationship with Ernesto and with a passion for the catering industry

Notes and References

Web site: La strada di casa. Italian.
Web site: La strada di casa. Italian.
Web site: La strada di casa: cast e trama. Italian.
Web site: "La strada di casa": trama, cast e personaggi. 21 November 2017 . Italian.
Web site: "La strada di casa 2": dove eravamo rimasti e cosa succederà. 13 September 2019 . Italian.