Daniel De Rossi

New anti-gay laws have just been approved in Russia. After a competition in St. Petersburg, Italian swimmer Massimo meets a Russian of his own age, Vladimir, working as an interpreter for the delegation of which Massimo is a member. The two men fall in love, but they will have to face the cultural barriers between them, as well as old and new macho stereotypes.

During a prison interview, a female killer confronts a morbid journalist, revealing the twisted genesis of her hatred for men.

In the height of summer Enea turns up at his family's country mansion, but the holiday mood is quickly undermined by the house's only inhabitant who reopens old wounds that have never healed.