Paola

<P>In the beautiful town of Pistoia in Tuscany forty-eight-year-old Paola is preparing to meet the man who might become her lover. Married with two children Paola is resigned to living a lonely life separate from her husband who works in Brazil. And yet she is desperate to experience joy again. As Paola enters her potential lover's office she faints. In a matter of seconds her life has been transformed forever.</P><P>The victim of a major stroke Paola is robbed of her ability to speak. Trapped between reality and a timeless dimension where she lives in a world devoid of words and full of indecipherable objects Paola soon realizes that even the clock-once used for marking days full of dissatisfaction in her life is no longer meaningful. Intent on returning to a normal life Paola embarks on a journey in search of lost words with the help of a Cuban healing guru a Jungian analyst and fi nally a famous ayurvedic nutritionist who could help Paola change everything in her life.</P><P>Paola is the poignant tale of a woman who in the moment of her greatest weakness must begin a quest to find the courage and inner strength she has been missing her entire life.</P>