Cosimo Longo

A father starts to work as a driver for a criminal organization.

Is it better to rely on your instincts or an app that guides you toward the perfect choice? Is it better to ask someone out in person or send a heart emoji on a dating app? This is the dilemma of Riccardo, the classic shy and awkward teenager, who relies on an unsettling digital avatar to find his soulmate; it is also Teresa’s dilemma, his sister, who seeks to explore the limits of love and respect in her relationship.

In Rome, during a January weekend a sudden heatwave arrives. The sun is initially pleasant, but the heat quickly escalates to a frightening degree, resulting in people and animals losing self-control.

Nico is a 16 year old girl who has in her head a chaos in which she can no longer orient herself, made of anxiety attacks, visions and voices that speak to her. After a hallucinatory episode, she is taken in charge by a psychiatric clinic with the diagnosis of schizophrenia and there she meets Michele, Emma and Daniel. The four boys form a group and face together a difficult, but fundamental, path towards self-knowledge and self-acceptance.