Italian Sud-Est is not a film about the Salento area.
It's simply a journey, a journey along a border, like the ones we dream of when we're children. Well, like the ones we dreamt about when we played cowboys and Indians. One day we got on one of these strange trains, we wanted to understand where the Salento people were going. We got lost. We couldn't find the stations to get off. Just like a dream, a nightmare perhaps. Salento, 2003. Caterina is roaming through Salento, extreme south-eastern Italy. She travels on little yellow trains, the trains run by Sud-Est, the local railway that traverses the province of Lecce. She talks to a different person every day, a passenger, engine driver or railway worker. Every day she listens to stories, voices, memories , tales of nomadic tribes, saints and legends, but also accounts of injustice, deterioration and abandon. She takes notes of some things on a tape recorder. Caterina might be a journalist. At times she dreams...