Lorenzo Fantastichini

Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

Ilenia, a quiet and introverted teenager, has always looked up to her older sister Dafne, her complete opposite and role model. When Dafne finds herself trapped in a toxic relationship during the crucial period of her final high school exams, it is Ilenia, symbolically stepping into her sister’s shoes, who helps her recognize the abuse and find the strength to break free. The short film was developed through a school workshop focused on preventing gender-based violence.

Altiero Molino is a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur who’s returning to Ventotene with his model husband in order to gather his old friends together around his ailing father so as to treat him to one last holiday in this place which is so special to him. He didn’t expect to find the island all abuzz with Sabry Mazzalupi’s marriage to her partner Cesare. This young woman, who’s the awkward daughter of Roman shopkeeper Ruggero, has become an online celebrity and her wedding is a global event attracting the media as well as mysterious emissaries from the new political regime. These two tribes of vacationers, two seemingly irreconcilable sides of Italy, are destined to come together during the Ferragosto holiday for an ultimate showdown.