Miriam Candurro

A former film star travels to Italy to work with a struggling director in order to revitalize his career.

Andrea is a labor consultant and his married life with Lucia is winding down. Once a week Andrea crosses the border of the Neapolitan nightlife to give life to Octavia Meraviglia: the most famous drag queen in Naples.

Hoping to secure a better future for their thirteen-year-old sister Chiara, Massimo and Fabrizio, two penniless brothers with no prospects, invent an unusual business. Armed with masks and microcameras, they publicly demolish the identities of various neighborhood crooks, thus transforming themselves into two unlikely paid heroes.

Rosario is 11 years old, he lives in the suburbs with his grandmother, a sick woman who spends time watching TV. He is the leader of a small group who spends his days between games rooms, small crimes and dangerous challenges.

Three different stories pay homage to the city of Naples, seen as a capital of hospitality and multiethnic integration. In the first, a Sri Lankan waiter on his first day at work is tasked with delivering coffee to a well-known radio station, but encounters many unexpected challenges. In the second, a former Ukrainian TV presenter, wife of an imprisoned politician, is forced to come to Italy and adapt to the role of carer to a grumpy old man. In the third, a Neapolitan nanny, caring for a young Chinese boy, asks her brother to look after the child while she is away on a prize trip.

The story of two brothers, separated by time and their character, and their journey back to Italy, homeward, in the summer of 1956.