Miriam Imperatore

Alessia and Danilo live in the Roman outskirts. In their early twenties, their opposite stories blend together when they fall in love. Danilo was raised in the suburb by Maurizio, a tyrannical father, with the purpose of redeeming himself and ruling his area. Alessia, influenced by religious visions and provoked by the neighbourhood, realizes too late that Danilo will never leave his gang. They will have to decide whether and how to honour their fathers.

It is evening. Tarek is seventeen years old and is on his way to see his friends, who have asked him on the telephone to pass by the park first and buy a few grams of dope: nothing much, just enough for some fun. The boy buys the stuff in the dark park, but when he emerges finds that someone has seen him: a policeman in plain clothes, sitting in his own car. The man could simply confiscate the hash, intimidate him a little and then let him go, or he could decide to take him to the station and call his parents. But he opts for neither of these things. He tells the young man to get in the car and starts the engine. Where does he want to take him? The policeman is ambiguous, mysterious. What does he want from the teenager? Tarek is in check, he can’t just leave. The policeman makes him stay with him the whole night, driving around in apparently aimless fashion, stopping first in one place, then in another.