Malich Cissé

In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.

An innocent woman is forced to confront a dangerous kingpin who has kidnapped her young daughter and is holding her for ransom. She teams up with a corrupt Interpol agent, whose son is also being held hostage, to rip off various criminals to raise the ransom to save their offspring. Together they have one hour to save their families from the wrath of bigwig.

In the rough outskirts of a southern Italian city, a young man caring for his ailing grandmother is drawn into a series of robberies with an outlaw bound by an ancient code of honor. Between loyalty, loss, and the longing for family, he must decide who he is—and how far he’ll go not to be alone.

In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.

Martin and Ryan are two young men in their twenties who are both tired of their respective lives; Ryan is an African boy who has arrived in Italy illegally, and after clashing with the reality of the "European dream" within which he cannot find his place, he only wishes to return home to his family in Africa. The two friends meet Beatrice, a Martin's childhood friend. They decide to join forces and begin to refit an old abandoned sailboat with which Ryan will be able to return home.

Italy is not qualified for the 2018 World Cup. In an Italian village, a small group decides to create their own competition.