In many ways Mirco was a typical 10-year-old boy; skittish, puppyish and with a very short attention span. One second he'd be playing with a spinning top, and a nanosecond later he'd be running down the street in pursuit of the next fun thing. Mirco was the only child of adoring parents living in the idyllic Tuscan countryside; nothing bad happened except skinned knees and a broken pot handle. Then one afternoon a rifle accident (which happened out of childish curiosity and recklessness) robbed Mirco of his eyesight.
Under Italian law in the 1960s, he was no longer allowed to attend the local elementary school. Forcibly put into a state-subsidized boarding school for the blind in Genoa, he had no choice but to cut a fresh start, but without being able to see where he was going.
So goes the story of "Rosso Come Il Cielo" (released in Japan as "Mirco no Hikari"), based on the life of Italian sound designer Mirco Mencacci (who edited the soundtrack for this film).