Roberto Morson

It is an afternoon at the end of the school year, and Lorenzo and his friends gather at the Ughetto Forno bridge for a quick game of football. A blow to the head catapults Lorenzo back to June 5, 1944, making him experience firsthand what Ughetto Forno lived through. Upon waking, Lorenzo is a changed boy, deeply aware of the heroic deed performed many years ago by that Roman kid just like him. Today, standing face to face with the mural dedicated to Ughetto, he also feels a bit like a hero.

The film takes place over the course of a single night: the longest night of the year, between December 21 and 22 (the winter solstice), when the sun sets around 4:30 p.m. and rises the next day at 7:30 a.m. A long night in which the stories, destinies, anxieties, and dramas of a provincial town in the south (Potenza) intertwine, even if only briefly. Fifteen hours of uninterrupted darkness in which human destiny becomes exceptional, as the night causes the anchors of the day to be lost and four personal stories suddenly accelerate.