Every Promise is a subtle and beautifully realised tale about dependence and redemption. When Sarah leaves him - heartbroken by their inability to conceive - Pietro reverts to a younger self, increasingly unable to care for himself. Soon afterwards, Sarah confesses that she is pregnant from a casual encounter with another man. She comes to rely on Pietro's mother for support, leaving all three in a painful limbo, unable to move on or return to the way things were. Into the void falls Olmo, an old man haunted by memories of war. At first he provides a distraction, but when he asks Pietro to travel to Russia on his behalf, to right a wrong from his past, he offers this most troubled of young men the chance of a new beginning