Mario Martone

Felice Lasco (Pierfrancesco Favino) returns to the Sanità district to look after his sick and dying mother after 45 years spent between the Middle East and Africa. Strolling through the alleys of the Sanità neighbourhood, he is haunted by memories - among them recollections of his childhood friend Oreste, who today is a feared Camorra crime boss. Without heeding the warning of his friends, Felice contacts Oreste. Athmospheric thriller by Mario Martone that lets his main character wander between present and past and that illustrates the light and dark sides of his hometown. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Ermanno Rea.

The first novel by Elena Ferrante in the adaptation by Mario Martone. What happened to Amalia? Who was with her the night she died? Is Amalia, as the last hours of her life suggest, the woman her daughter Della has always imagined: equivocal, satisfied, predisposed to secret deviances and able to escape her husband's obsessive surveillance?