Loredana Simioli

In the late 1980s, Amedeo Letizia, a young 20 something Italian, leaves his hometown of Casal di Principe to pursue a career in acting in Rome. While he's making his debut, his younger brother Paolo is kidnapped by armed men. Amedeo comes back, this return being an infernal descent into his past and his region's contradictions.

Procida, a little Island in the gulf of Naples. Last days of summer. The adolescence of Domenico is coming to an end, just like his tormented relationship with Marcello. Domenico looks for hospitality at Antonio's house, his best friend, but soon he finds himself alone with the thirteen-years-old Antonio's brother, Lallo. A journey of discovery starts, between adolescence and maturity. The meeting with Sara, a transsexual woman, will bring to light the desires of the two young boys.

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.

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.

Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso’s son, Perez has to cut through the morality of his law-abiding roots and become as dirty as the dangerous criminals he represents.

Luciano es un padre de familia alegre y con don de gentes. Tiene una tienda de pescado en Nápoles y se desenvuelve a la perfección entre sus clientes. Un día, empujado por uno de sus hijos se apuntará sin demasiada convicción en los castings del Gran Hermano versión italiana, concurso de telerrealidad que se emite por televisión 24 horas al día. Tras ser elegido como participante su vida dará un giro radical. Ahora es famoso y tanto él como los suyos tendrán que acostumbrarse a una nueva realidad. Pero... ¿realmente le servirá para algo o se convertirá su cotidianeidad en una auténtica tortura? El director Matteo Garrone, después del éxito de su anterior película, 'Gomorra', se introduce en el terreno de la crítica social en esta sátira en torno al mundo de la televisión y los reality shows en la que explora de qué forma se ve afectada la intimidad dentro de un mundo en el que la línea entre lo privado y lo público parece haberse difuminado por completo.