A delicate portrayal of a mental health crisis, centered around a woman plotting an elaborate escape from her apartment building.

Committed is a short film about mental health - but from a slightly different angle. This story doesn't look at the person suffering from depression, but at the caregiver. The one who struggles. The person who rarely pays attention to their own wellbeing while looking out for the people they love. Often, it's those of us who are fighting to save the lives of others that often wind up losing themselves.

The country is under lockdown. Covid-19 has decimated the patients of the Retirement Homes. In one of them two stories flow parallel through the empty corridors. Alfredo, the medical director, must face the inspection of the inflexible inspector, Viola, to whom he must account for the anti Covid measures adopted. Meanwhile Georg, an elegant and light-hearted guest of foreign origins apparently heedless of any health precautions, uses all his talents to win the heart of a new patient, Alida, who, who resists advances with less and less firmness. The two plots will inevitably intertwine. But nothing is as it seems.

"Before Al arrives" is about Alzheimer's disease. The director and the director of photography interpret the mother's illness.