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The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

For the second time in his career, MACE returns to Milan’s Forum, bringing together on stage the artists who have given voice to his musical universe: Venerus, Gemitaiz, Joan Thiele, Salmo, and many others.More than a chronicle of a concert, the film is a journey through perception: from intimacy to collective experience, from control to ecstasy. Through the words of the artists and images of the preparations and the show, it follows the creation of a shared experience. Rehearsals, stage, and audience merge into a flow in which the boundary between reality and hallucination becomes increasingly blurred.

In a Rome divided between the city center and the suburbs, rich and poor, famous and not, Alex, Gaia, and Marco are three friends in their early twenties who dream of escaping the future society has written for them. Street life, working at the market, poverty, small-time drug dealing, suburban tenements, and the dream of hip-hop are Alex's life until his dream comes true and he finds himself catapulted into the world of rap, playing his part and proving his worth. Managing his own destiny, however, isn't easy, and Alex makes many mistakes, leaving him alone, without a point of reference, and with fleeting success. He must then confront his demons, the harshness of the world, and his own confusion, to learn to love his anger and understand what he truly desires.

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.