Plot

Naples faces dual volcanic threats from Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. Amid increasing tremors, archaeologists work as residents live anxiously, haunted by Pompeii's fate while emergency services strain.

Pompeii Under the Clouds is a contemplative documentary that paints a poetic and atmospheric portrait of the area surrounding Mount Vesuvius - Naples, Pompeii, and the nearby coast. Filmed over three years, it observes the everyday lives of the region's inhabitants: firefighters, archaeologists, sailors, port workers, street educators, refugees, and many others. The film has no narration and no traditional storyline. Instead, it relies on quiet observation: gestures, faces, ruins, landscapes, and fragments of daily life. Rosi blends the ancient and the modern, showing how people live their ordinary routines beneath the symbolic "cloud" of the volcano. Through this mosaic of scenes, the documentary explores the layers of time: the buried past of Pompeii and the living present of Naples coexist in a space suspended between memory and contemporary reality. The effect is meditative, sometimes somber, and deeply visual - a portrait of a region where history and daily life constantly overlap.