"outside the world") is a 1999 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Piccioni.

[2] Although selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 72nd Academy Awards, it was not nominated.

The film follows a nun whose life is upended when she is handed an abandoned infant in a park.

She takes the baby to the hospital and proceeds to track down the mother.

Along the way she meets the owner of a dry cleaning business whose sweater was wrapped around the baby, and begins to wonder if convent life is right for her.