Cecilia Rizzuto

In May, all Gypsy communities gather in Camargue to worship Saint Sara Kali. Following Esméralda and her family – a group of French Manouche – we will immerse ourselves in the pilgrimage in search of the true spirit of the Gens du Voyage, the travelling people.

Titus lives in his own dystopia. When he embraces the abyss within him and all his contradictions, he begins to dance. He is the madman who manages to grasp the truths that elude others: man's complex search for identity.

Upon his release from prison, Gio reunites with his Toni. The two petty thieves want to turn their lives around: she proposes one last heist, while he dreams of making a movie. As Gio recounts the screenplay for *Amanti a mano armata* (Armed Lovers)—which he wrote while incarcerated—reality blurs with fiction. That drab, black-and-white day transforms into a color film with a noir vibe, starring none other than Toni and Gio themselves! What will the "armed lovers" choose: Toni’s heist or Gio’s movie?

The first day of a boy fresh out of SERT, searching for beauty on the shores of Lake Garda. A melancholy look at the value of trust, the story of an impossible intimacy between two people unable to get close.