Matteo Turchetti

At his first illegal rave, nineteen-year-old Valerio follows two older friends into a night of excess and abandon. As the night unravels, his longing for approval draws him into a darkness he can no longer escape.

Alessia and Danilo live in the Roman outskirts. In their early twenties, their opposite stories blend together when they fall in love. Danilo was raised in the suburb by Maurizio, a tyrannical father, with the purpose of redeeming himself and ruling his area. Alessia, influenced by religious visions and provoked by the neighbourhood, realizes too late that Danilo will never leave his gang. They will have to decide whether and how to honour their fathers.

Three Roman teenagers try to make their mark on the world: Brenda is pregnant; Ale has just turned 19 and is about to become a father; Kevin fills the city with his name. Always connected, they buzz between the coastal countryside and the Eternal City, trying to resist each in his own way the inexorable advance of time and heat.