Loredana Simioli
When Deborah's ex-husband, a popular neomelodic singer, loses his life in a stage dive, Deborah worries for her eleven-year-old son, Ciro, who is exhibiting signs of depression. Searching for a solution, Deborah takes Ciro to see Tommaso, a shy child psychologist. During the course of their visits, Ciro confesses that it's not his father's death that has got him down, it's his love for his classmate, the beautiful Ludovica. The two make a deal: Tomasso will help Ciro to win the affections of Ludovica, while Ciro gives Tomasso a hand at having a chance with his mother.
Summer is almost over. Domenico is 19 years old and has a turbulent life. After an argument with his parents he has spent most of the night wandering around. He looks for hospitality at the Antonio’s house, an old friend. Antonio lets him sleep in the room with his 14 year-old brother, Lallo. As soon as Domenico and Lallo are left alone, they begin walking around on a sunny and fringe Procida. Both of them with their own baggage of questions and uncertainties. Their encounter with Sarah, a transsexual woman, with her wisdom and sincerity, will mark an important time of growth and freedom for both. Only next morning, when the sun has taken away all dreams, Domenico and Lallo will separate. An adventurous and touching journey through adolescence, in an area where boundaries are marked hard by the sea.
Fulvio is the only one of the three brothers to have left the village to go to work in the city. Deputy chief of staff in a large company, he dismisses people without remorse until he gets fired himself and after being jailed for beating his superior, is entrusted to his brother, who's a pastor in the village where they grew up. Forced into a place far from the modern world, Fulvio decides to help the local church in crisis by inventing a miracle that makes everyone believe that the saint's statue weeps. Tourists and pilgrims rush to the village and are filling the pockets of local businesses until the Vatican decides to send someone to certify the event. Fulvio must confess the scam, but the entire village will rise to convince the envoys of the Holy City for the veracity of the invented miracle.
