Gloria!

At year 1800, near to Venice, stands the Sant'Ignazio Institute, a cross between an orphanage, a conservatory, and a convent. It is the home of Teresa, a young woman with a special gift: a talent that allows her to listen to the world around her and transform it into new, contemporary music. Sadly, her talent is overlooked; in the convent everyone calls her “the Mute,” a lonely maid living in silence. But things are about to change for her. While the convent is in turmoil for the concert in honor of Pope Pius VII who is soon to visit, Teresa finds something exceptional hidden in the convent's storage room: a piano. She can finally translate the music in her head into reality! An exhilarating and solitary experiment... until one night a group of musicians who live in the convent peep into the warehouse. Soon, won over by the magnetism of Teresa, the girls form a close-knit group of rebellious musicians, giving life to a new music that none could expect. Gloria! speaks of the imagination and inventiveness of all women composers who, like preserved flowers, have remained hidden in the pages of history. Production notes