The Holy Boy

Chiara loves Instagram and she loves her followers. But when one night someone really starts following her, her life turns into a vortex of danger and desperation, Story after Story.

In the past few days Rome has been the scene of a singular event: when it rains, the manholes exhale a dense steam whose origin and composition is unknown. No one can imagine that whoever breathes in the mysterious substance will have to deal with what he/she represses, their darkest instincts, their anger. Not even the Morel family.

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

In a dark, velvety theatre, there is a first kiss between Pietro and Tommaso. When the lights come back on, however, the two students have different expectations of what might follow. The chaos of awakening desire in its complexity and sensuality is told and made almost physically tangible through looks and gestures, approach and retreat, hope and fear.

On a stormy night in Rome, Anna arrives at her daughter Alice’s apartment with a devastating confession: their entire family history is built on a lie. Twenty years earlier, after a horrific accident that nearly cost Alice her leg, Anna claims she made a pact with a mysterious Stranger to save her. But the miracle came at a price. What she believed was a single desperate bargain has in fact unleashed a spiraling chain reaction — a domino effect of increasingly dark events that have haunted their lives ever since. Now, the Stranger has come to collect. And Anna is convinced that only Alice can break the spiral and set things right. But at what cost?

Summer will be over soon. Tommaso is only ten. During a trip to the seaside with his mother and brother, he sees something he doesn't fully understand. That night, Tommaso is going to tell a dangerous lie.

Cacio, a young father, and his eleven year-old son, Matteo, are spending the hot summer in the suburbs of Rome. To provide himself and his son a better future, Cacio invests all his savings to realize his dream: opening a mechanic's workshop. One morning Cacio brings his son to the worksite. What happens that day is going to change their lives forever.

After the funeral of a young man, six men carry a white coffin to the hearse that will take it to the cemetery. Pietro and Adriano, two gravediggers, discuss among themselves, inquiring about the boy’s death. In a small town in the South of Italy, a circle of rumors and comments spreads about the tragic death of Claudio and offers a sharp vision about a tragic issue of our time.

Tommy's entire life flows before us like a movie. Through recorded memories, his own stories, and everything that has stood the test of time. Eighty years of a life that could be anyone's. But whose is it really?