Filippo Santopietro

Alba lives inside a 1920s silent film, in black and white. Each day repeats: she stands in the garden of her villa above Trento, watching the city and its promise of a brighter future. Her dreams are always cut short by the marriage proposal of a man she cannot accept. One day, she finds a small wooden box and opens it. In an instant, she is in Milan in 2025, where she meets a young man weighed down by disillusion. Together, they begin a journey of self-discovery, love, and the courage to claim their own future.

In an anonymous uneventful maritime town, several people mysteriously begin to go missing. This brings a youngle couple, Monica and Elia, to fight about whether to stay or run away, leading to Elia leaving abruptly on his bike, which’ll end up fueling Monica’s anxiety and fears when she can’t find him anymore. Her mental state will turn into her worst enemy as Monica tries to navigate between the surreal of her obsessions, the reality of the disappearances, her relationships with the people close to her and the consequences of the actions she’s going to take.

After his highly successful escape to Sardinia, Mr. Imbruttito returns to his native Milan, but within a short time, the company he has always worked for is acquired by a powerful American multinational, Blacksun. The new owners also promote a business model that is highly inclusive and sustainable. Mr. Imbruttito will lose his job, his home, and his family, finding himself forced to make ends meet by working as a delivery driver—precisely the very thing he always despised as a manager.