Dafne is in juvie for trying to steal a mobile phone in the station where he slept, lying on a bench. The girl is a wild cat with precedents behind an absent mother and a loving but inadequate father who has seen up close the prison. Daphne lives for the day, and even in reform states his rebellious nature. But it is also a deeply sensitive creature, capable of deep compassion and the human solidarity that against him is almost always missed...
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New York, late twenties. Max Perkins is the main editor of the publishing house Scribner’s Son and has already contributed to the discovery of writers of the caliber of Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. On 2 January 1929 the first meeting with Thomas Wolfe, who has submitted a manuscript of a thousand pages titled “O Lost”. Perkins read it in one breath and the certainty of having before him an author who deserves the literary success...
Read More ...New York, 1943. Arturo Giammarresi, Palermo transplanted in America, dreams of marrying the lovely conterranea Flora, but she is already promised to Carmel, son of the right arm of Lucky Luciano. The only way to get the Flora hand is to ask it directly to the woman’s father, he remained in Sicily. And since the Allies are going to land in Trinacria Arturo he enlisted in the US Army and arrived in the village where Crisafulli command, in no particular order, the Madonna, the Duce, the local boss Don Calo and a handful of fascist...
Read More ...Bruno is seriously ill with a disease that has ancient origins linked to a traumatic event in the past. His wife Elena tries to be near him but is not allowed to cross the wall that Bruno has erected to protect the horror and shame...
Read More ...James Bowen is a homeless singer-songwriter, who lives and sleeps on the street, eating what is and yielding to the lure of heroin to escape from despair. His parents separated when he was eleven, James followed his mother in Australia, then returned to London, but has never managed to get un-ban from his father, who has since formed a new family. The meeting that will change the life of Bob is the one with a red cat, found wandering around in her council house in Tottenham...
Read More ...Ruby is a ballet dancer, on her first day in the Big Apple to attend the conservatory in Manhattan. Johnny is a street violinist who plays in the subway. A clash between hip hop crew, in the underground metro, creates confusion and gives the two a chance to meet but also to a couple of thieves to steal Johnny his only treasure, the violin of his grandfather...
Read More ...Julia life, born Giulio. Fatherless, he grows in the province with the mother and sister. A school is being bullied, while the pastor abuse not affect its relationship with faith. Graduated, he moved to Milan where he began working as a model in a couture atelier...
Read More ...Newcastle. Daniel Blake is on the threshold of sixty years and, after working all your life, now for the first time needs, following a heart attack, the assistance of the State. In fact, the doctors who follow him certify a deficit that prevents him to have stable employment. It then requested the recognition of invalidity with its aid, but this is rejected. Meanwhile Daniel has met a young woman, Daisy, mother of two children who, without work, had to accept the offer of a small apartment but having to leave London and so are in an environment and an unknown city...
Read More ...The young university medical student Nancy chose for their holidays a place of the soul, a charming and Mexican lonely beach where his mother, who died recently, loved to go even when she was pregnant with her. The friend who was to accompany her gives her hole, staying, drunk after a good night in the hotel. A local, Carlos, gives her a ride right there, but then she is left alone with his surfboard. Meet a couple of surfers and likes to ride the waves with them for a while ‘. Then, as he is about to fall in the evening, they go away and Nancy remains entirely alone. In the water, the dolphins frolicking alongside. Then, top it off, he sees a whale dead torn and immediately shows up who killed him: a great white shark...
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