Tonia De Micco

Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.

Life in suburban Palermo can be tough: Salvo is a young father who struggles between makeshift jobs and criminal-grotesque affairs to support his son. When the spiral of violence turns against him, he runs into Ciurè, a transgender dancer who helps him, opening doors to a kaleidoscopic gay night club where she performs every night. Will Salvo be able to overcome his prejudices against the "wanderers of the night" and put on new clothes, to the point of reinventing himself in a new body

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.

Desiré is a Neapolitan girl of Senegalese origins, she is sixteen years old and lives day by day. She has no friends, no interests, no great passions, her world appears as empty as the gaze of her mother, a drug addict who can't stand upright. The only thing that has value about her is the affection she feels for Emanuele, a boy a few years older who seeks a rapid rise in the local underworld. It's their fault that Desiré is in the wrong place at the wrong time: she is arrested by the police and sent to a juvenile penitentiary. In her long detention, Desiré begins a slow path of identity growth that she did not believe possible.

A mad killer locked Giulia and her four-year-old daughter in the trunk of a car, intending to kill them both later. Only one person could possibly save them: Marta, who had decided to kill herself that very same day.