In My Steps

After a swimming accident that leaves her seriously injured, Marta Strinati, an Olympic diver, finds herself disoriented and alone. So, she leaves the city of Barcelona and moves to a medieval Italian hilltop town surrounded by the most incredible and unspoiled countryside. Marta reopens the studio-cum-home of her father, a painter who died recently, and meets Sebastian, one of the many artists living in the village, a man of unquestionable charisma, who is magnetic, touchy. At his exhibition, she discovers his paintings, all of the same muse, a Japanese girl, both disturbing and reassuring, and feels a strong sense of déjà vu. Suddenly, the model of the paintings, is there beside her, and it is immediately apparent that the mysterious oriental girl will have a huge effect on her life… Marta's encounter with Haru, the model of all the hyper-realistic paintings on show at the exhibition, soon develops into an affair that Marta realizes she can't live without, a sort of blighting physical and mental obsession. An extreme Stendhal syndrome, or just a love as strong as death?