Gianfranco Boattini

This is the story of 16-year-old Benedetta and a bizarre foster family. Benedetta is the mayor's daughter and her social role is put to the test.

A freak lived his entire lifetime closed down in a cellar far in the country. But one day the Monkey Boy, after the death of his "keeper", an old lonely woman, is forced to explore the world outside. The story is set during one night only, a short time to discover the world, but enough time to find Agata, an autistic young girl, the only creature that seems to be able to communicate with him in that dark night full of weird lonely and unhappy characters called human beings.

Giovanni and Michele are two university students looking for a third roommate for their apartment. Giovanni, a medical student, is more interested in staging his amateur play, “The Laundry of Freud,” than in studying for his exams. Michele, an optimistic student who has fallen behind in his studies, spends his days moving from one party and one girl to another. When Asia unexpectedly shows up at their door, the three begin sharing an apartment and, gradually, their doubts, ambitions and insecurities. Between postponed exams, ambitious conversations, incurable melancholy and one coffee after another, they face an uncertain future as part of a generation struggling to find its own direction.