Based on the novel by John Berger, To The Wedding demonstrates that even the cruelest of fates can be endured and transcended through courage, love, and determination.

Taking place in continental Europe on the eve of the 21st century, it’s a world where everything’s changing and not even the certainties of love are exempt.

Beautiful, vibrant Ninon meets and has a whirlwind romance with a young Italian named Gino. But her life abruptly changes when she tests positive for HIV, the legacy of a brief encounter years earlier. She desperately tries to break off the relationship, but Gino will have none of it. In an act of passionate and redemptive love he insists on marrying Ninon despite her illness. Their stories mesh and intercut with those of Ninon’s parents as they travel towards their daughter. Her father John, full of grief, rides his motorcycle along windy European roads, stopping occasionally to offer prayers to a roadside Madonna or ruminate on the future with young computer hackers. Her mother Zdena, a Slovakian intellectual, buys a thrush whistle, evocative of happier times before politics forced her to leave her daughter years earlier, before boarding a bus for Italy. Ninon fights her love for Gino, struggles with her new found status and eventually embraces both.

Finally all arrive at the wedding itself. Set in a little village on the Po River Delta in Italy, it becomes a magical feast in which all the lost and searching souls are drawn together in the bittersweet embrace of Gino and Ninon’s timeless love.

Both tragic and joyous, intelligent and erotic, To The Wedding is a transcendent celebration of passion at the end of the last millennium.