A recurring image of darkness is shown, especially when it comes to Cristina and Vittorio’s father, Mario. He is always described as a dark figure, and Cristina has dark sins. When Mario tells Cristina to abandon the baby and let it die, Cristina says “ He says we’re still in the dark ages… when women used to dump their babies at the back door of the convent in the middle of the night and leave them there to die from the cold.” In this quote Cristina refers him to be in the “dark ages” just like how he is described as a dark figure . Mario doesn't give the idea of actually putting the child in an orphanage, but to let it slowly die. That type of abandonment, to let the child die alone is dark, but Mario makes that his choice. The grandpa