Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never quite manage to find. For a band of tombaroli (tomb raiders, who steal ancient goods and archaeological wonders), the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur (Josh O’Connor of THE CROWN), the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches everywhere, and goes inside the earth – in search of the door to the afterlife of which myths speak.

In Academy Award®-nominee Alice Rohrwacher’s absurdist adventure, Arthur and his fellow tombaroli end up on a journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between boisterous celebrations and pensive moments of solitude. Ultimately, LA CHIMERA asks (paraphrasing a character in the film): “Does [the past] belong to everyone? Or does it belong to no one?”