Shifting deals with imaginary motion of souls from person to person.
The reason behind this film is the time I spent with my grandfather: it deals with the missing sense and the idea that some people, even unaware, can deeply mark our life.
In a longing for youth society, oldness is a value, a treasure, an amazing beauty that nobody looks at. Old age can bring truth and wisdom, especially to a boy who’s learning to live with nobody to rely on: it’s about the need to have a friend, a master, a companion, an
enemy, an example and an affection; a memory to carry… But old age means loneliness too: our world often leaves weak people drifting alone.
This is the story of two of these solitudes that meet; but it’s also the crash between two outcasts belonging to such far and different worlds. Unlike what this kind of story suggests, the tale is led in a very sober way, among many sub-plots and without any judgement;
it’s pushed forward not emphasizing events, but making their inner strength vibrate. Music plays a soft and hidden role. It feels like it’s not the narrator, but the story to leads us, as if it was an unavoidable flow of accidental events, not driven by a purpose-built narration.