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A mother with an incurable disease leaves 18 gifts for her daughter's birthdays.
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Elisa is only forty when an incurable disease takes her from her husband and their daughter. Before her heart stops, Elisa finds a way to stay close to her: a gift for every birthday up to her adult age, 18 gifts to try to accompany her child's growth year after year.
"This Italian melodrama is based on a true story that made headlines around the world: Elisa Girotto, a woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer on the same day her daughter was born, planned special gifts to accompany the child and guide her through the world in her first 18 birthdays. '18 Regali' adapts the touching story in a curious metaphysical way, developing the special mother-daughter relationship where past and present coexist. The film is tender, moving, and perhaps overly sentimental, but there's no doubt it's a powerful tale of the strength of maternal love."