Ohanami

1902, when Constantinople was still Orient. In the covered market the merchant asks the traveler, whether she likes spices. She smells into the colorful bazaar, a surge of everything she likes and dislikes, foreign and unapproachable. The cinnamon,...

Alessandra walks through the alleys of the small Sicilian town of Taormina. It's the first vacation alone for the 30-year-old; she and her longtime boyfriend broke up in the winter. She has taken ten long days off from her boring office job in Milan...