“Happy as Lazzaro” director Alice Rohrwacher is working on her next film. Production is now underway on “La Chimera,” which the filmmaker describes as “the story of a young English archaeologist who gets involved in the underground world of the ‘tombaroli,’ the nocturnal raiders of Etruscan tombs.” Variety broke the news.

Currently shooting in Southern Tuscany, “La Chimera” sees Josh O’Connor (“The Crown”) playing Arthur, a British archeologist who gets caught up in an international network of stolen artifacts during the ’80s. Rohrwacher’s sister and frequent collaborator Alba Rohrwacher and Isabella Rossellini also star as, respectively, an international artifacts trafficker and a retired opera singer.

Alice Rohrwacher considers “La Chimera,” which loosely translates as “The Unrealizable Dream,” “the final piece of a triptych on territory that I started with ‘The Wonders’ and which poses a central question: what to do with the past?…Is the past merely a lost world, or does it intimately concern our present?”

“The Wonders,” “Happy as Lazzaro,” and “La Chimera” are “a trilogy on Italian identity,” producer Carlo Cresto Dina explained. “To complete her trilogy Alice thought of having a non-Italian protagonist who in a way represents an outside perspective on us [Italians].”

Rohrwacher will reunite with several past collaborators for the project, including cinematographer Hélène Louvart, editor Nelly Quettier, production designer Emita Frigato, and costume designer Loredana Buscemi. They all previously worked together on “Happy as Lazzaro,” while Louvart, Frigato, and Buscemi worked on “The Wonders.” Alba Rohrwacher starred in both.

Production will be completed in two parts: the current winter session will run through the end of February, and the summer session will take place in August. “La Chimera” is expected to be released next year.

“Futura,” “Corpo Celeste,” and episodes of “My Brilliant Friend” are among Alice Rohrwacher’s other credits. She won Best Screenplay at Cannes 2018 for “Happy as Lazzaro.” The pic also received nominations for European Director, European Screenwriter, and European Film at the European Film Awards, as well as a nod for Best International Film at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.