Spettri di Famiglia is a feverish quest. This of a renowned photographer, in his forties, who learns about his Neapolitan origins. This will be followed by multiple journeys which, in the absence of truth, will nourish a self-fictional narrative imbued with dark poetry. "These are smutty images, buried for ages, then slowly brought up from the deep galleries of memory, those places dedicated to the worst and where one does not like to hang out. These images are the obscure story of an abandonment, the brutal end of a French childhood, sliced with a cleaver. One evening, at the end of the vacations, a father says to Charlotte, his ten year old daughter, "we can't take you back with us, you'll have to stay here".