Luigi Miele

Valerio is a man lost between what was and what could have been. Obsessed with the perfect idea, he tries to tell a story but ends up losing his own. Trapped in a cold, distant present, he takes refuge in the few memories he has left, reliving fragments of a past consumed by the search for meaning.

Italy, 1940, dawn of the Second World War. A small group of fascists cook up a scheme to avoid the forthcoming call to arms. In order to do so, they sign up a contract where they accept to be infected with a mysterious and lethal disease: the Ethiopian Fever. Regardless Dr. Suardo's reassurances, who is sure to know how to cure the African disease, a chain of events is going to be triggered, which will lead to a gruesome bloodspread.