Domenico Maiolo

Mariano has been married for 10 years with Miranda, a woman way out of his league. Their small-town life is disrupted by womanizing photographer Andrea, who — struck by her good looks — offers Miranda a one-time modelling job. Albeit hesitant, the couple eventually accepts his invitation to the Seychelles...

Antonio is a forty-five-year-old Calabrian charcoal burner who still lives with his father, a gruff and sometimes violent figure. In the background, there's a pervasive sense of job insecurity, highlighting absence as a universal condition