Daniela and Valentina, a lesbian couple from Padua in a registered civil partnership since 2019, thought their family was settled after their daughter Caterina was born in 2022 through a Danish sperm donation. Then Giorgia Meloni's government moved against families like theirs. The film follows the couple as Padua's public prosecutor challenges Caterina's birth certificate in court, since Italian policy now says only the biological mother can be legally recognized. Daniela explains what losing that recognition would mean in practice: needing power of attorney just to pick her daughter up from school, being unable to travel abroad with her alone, and losing any say at doctor's appointments. DW's reporters set this single family's case against the wider legal landscape in Italy, where same-sex couples cannot adopt, surrogacy abroad is banned, and same-sex marriage remains illegal. Interviews with the couple carry the film, grounding a policy story in the daily bureaucratic mechanics of what recognition on paper actually secures for a parent.