Nine years later, Sarah has turned into an excellent swimmer. After she wins second place in the school trials, her father decides to look for a trainer for her. Sarah’s life crosses paths again with Gershe’s, who in the past had been a swimming instructor. Although initially skeptical, he finally agrees to train the young girl.

Thanks to her dedication and to her friendship with young Ciro, who takes care both of the reporter and of the car repair shop he inherited from his own father, Sarah succeeds in turning her dream into reality: participating in the Capri-Napoli Marathon, a swimming race of 35km in open seas.

Freely inspired by the true story of Sarah Gadalla Gubara, Sarahsara’ was written in collaboration with Nobel Prize winner Nadime Gordimer. It won the Tokio Youth Cinema Festival in 1994, and received the longest and most emotional applause at the Berlin Festival of the same year.