Rudi lives on petty crimes in his small world. He is sixty and he has spent most of his life on his own. He is feared and respected, he knows everything about this small world of his, but he doesn’t know that anything you leave behind can sometimes catch up, grab you and crush you. When he finds himself having to take care of his daughter Susanna, he is forced to come to terms with himself.
Orlando Angius
Rudi
Francesca Cavazzuti
Susanna
Alessandro Gazale
Pietrone
Andrea Carbon
Rudi lives on petty crimes in his small world. He is sixty and he has spent most of his life on his own. He is feared and respected, he knows everything about this small world of his, but he doesn’t know that anything you leave behind can sometimes catch up, grab you and crush you. When he finds himself having to take care of his daughter Susanna, he is forced to come to terms with himself.
A middle-aged man, Pietro, becomes a widower and must take care of his daughter. He will never have the time to delve into his own pain, committing himself to raising his daughter with love and dedication, in an all-encompassing relationship in which one heals the other's wounds through his own. When, after a few years, he tries to start a new life with a new partner, not everything will go as hoped: his daughter's reaction will be exaggerated and Pietro will be put to the test. He will find himself struggling between anger and paternal instinct.
Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. They live in Rome, moving between accomplishments and routine, affection and something that might be fading. In search of new energy, they travel to Morocco with their lifelong friends, Anna and Paolo, and their thirteen-year-old daughter Vittoria—bright, curious, a little eccentric. Tensions soon rise.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
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