Rico lives with his wife and two daughters in a wine-growing region at the foot of the alps.

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Katalin Gödrös' second film features a halfway harmonious family life inTicino. But soon his older daughter's awakening sexuality disturbs theiridyllic country life. A faithful caring father, Rico soon loses control ofhis feelings as disaster seems to loom...

Songs of Love and Hate is a forced and elliptically told story of a familyin which nothing is explained and the characters don't have enoughpsychological depth or believability. And although it is beautifully shot,it doesn't live up to the title.