Trust

Pietro is a revered teacher whose intellect earns respect, and Teresa is a brilliant, quicksilver student who challenges the boundaries of authority and desire. Their affair is electric and fraught, a collision of admiration and risk. After a fierce quarrel, Teresa pitches a game of secrets: each of them would reveal a confession so damning that public exposure could wreck the other’s life. Time moves on, and Pietro's reputation as a writer rises while his family settles into a comfortable bourgeois rhythm. Yet the possibility that Teresa could surface again to unleash the long kept secret haunts him, shaping every choice and memory he clings to.

Released in 2024, Trust is directed by Daniele Luchetti with a screenplay by Domenico Starnone and Francesco Piccolo, pairing Elio Germano as Pietro with Federica Rosellini as Teresa and Vittoria Puccini as Nadia.

Critics have given the film a measured response, praising the restrained mood and the way secrecy corrodes a contemplative middle class life. The movie probes guilt, power, memory, and the costs of living with a truth that never quite goes away.