Damiano Giacomelli

A Romanian girl dreams of living the glamorous life she sees in Italian soap operas.

Siddharta and Fabrizio, one of them nine years old, the other one 65, are the core of a community that renounces every civilising comfort. We are their guests – for one summer.

Like his father and grandfather before him, Nicola works on a field along an old mountain road. He sells potatoes grown by his family to passing motorists, while work on the "new road" is about to end. An unexpected encounter will give him the courage to take risks and ... change gears.

Teresa is a young disabled singer, determined to become someone in the world of traditional Italian music, despite the difficulties related to her physical condition, the post-earthquake context and the unlikely helpers she surrounds herself with. A mockumentary shot entirely with local actors in a brand new neighborhood created around a container area, after the 2016 earthquake in central Italy.

A mysterious wrongdoing shakes the life of Castelrotto, a small Apennine village that has always been off the news... and history. Ottone, a former local journalist and retired elementary school teacher, takes advantage of the incident to pick up the pen again and seek revenge for an old injustice suffered. His plan is clear: manipulate the narrative of the new crime to accuse the men who ruined his life.