Mariacarla Casillo

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.

In 2016, Andrea Michelini, a highly regarded artist, is preparing to make his theater debut in the final "twelve performances" of a successful show entitled Banana Blu: a Neapolitan version of Il vizietto, written by Michelini himself, now in its fifth season. Alongside Andrea, whom everyone calls "Gigi" in French, is his partner, Rolando Spinelli.

'Carmela's diary' tells the story of a 15-year-old girl who lives on the outskirts of Naples and is forced to work for her family's shopping center. Caged in a life that only promises her an uncertain future. Carmela perceives her adolescence as captivity, forced to live as a prisoner by her mother, Maria, who forces her to sell drugs along with her older brother, Ciro. War breaks out amongst the gangs in the neighborhood and Carmela is forced to stay indoors, with the windows well sealed, and give up everything, even one of the things she loves the most, going to school.

An entrepreneur from Caserta becomes entangled with the underworld and ends up exposing himself because of his relationship with Alba, the youngest daughter of a gangster. The subsequent situation gets worse and worse, and he is forced to hide in a bunker built especially for him, where he survives for a long time alone, in the company of hallucinations and ghosts.

Sebastian, a grieving man, takes a janitor job on a university campus. While monitoring students linked to a professor’s death, he uncovers a ghost story that may be more real than anyone believed.