Michela De Rossi

Set in Newark during the 1960s race riots between the African-American and Italian communities. The war between the cultural mobs turns especially lethal. Prequel to the TV series The Sopranos.

Carla, a young girl 25 years old, is a waitress at a restaurant. While Giulia, the same age as her and with the same economic difficulties, gets paid to get undressed on the internet, in a pornographic video-chatroom. One night, they will need each other.

Mirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions with their single parents, are still in school and struggle with occasional odd jobs to make ends meet. Together they share dreams of women, of sex and money, of a better life to come. Then, after killing a man in a hit-and-run one night, they get involved with the local mafia and their lives change dramatically.