Carmine Paternoster

Three undercover cops in Naples must face their own demons as well as criminals.

A boy and a girl are locked in an enormous abandoned building in a rundown area. She is a prisoner and the local clan leader has forced him to be her warder. Despite their youth, both of them have grown up too fast. Veronica acts like a mature and open-minded woman whilst Salvatore is like a man who wants to hold on to his job and lead a quiet life. Thus, when faced with the violence of this incarceration, the two young people have different reactions: Veronica is restless and rebellious; Salvatore is more remissive and accommodating, either out of fear or realism. They are both victims but it is almost as though each blames the other for their reclusion. However, as the hours go by, their mutual hostility is transformed into an inevitable intimacy, consisting of reciprocal discoveries and confessions. Between the walls of that isolated and frightening place, Veronica and Salvatore fi nd a way to rekindle those adolescent dreams and ideas put aside too soon.

Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples Pozzuoli State Prison, a high security lockup for women, and with the help of a translator he allows a number of women doing time to talk about their lives before and after they were convicted. Ferrara chose to expand the short profile of the prisoners into a feature by offering a look at life in the slums of Naples and the actions of a number of law enforcement officers and social workers struggling to improve conditions for the poor, as well as adding three short fictional segments shot of digital video gear.

카모라(나폴리판 마피아)가 군림하는 폭력의 도시 나폴리. 생존을 위해서는 조직의 법에 따라야 한다. 어려서부터 카모라를 동경하는 토토, 조직에서 벗어난 인디펜던트 갱을 자처하는 마르코와 치로, 배후에 카모라가 조종하는 폐기물처리를 시와 협상하는 프란코 등 6개 이야기가 교차편집됨으로써, 부패와 죽음이 지배하는 현대판 ‘고모라’를 적나라하게 조명한다.