La vita potenziale

Raised in a well-off and moralistic provincial town, among narrow-minded friends and parents ill-suited to the responsibilities of family life, Lavinia soon encounters the two obsessions that drain her psychophysical energy: sex and the cult of the body as an antidote to death. As a teenager, she witnesses the premature death of her father, struck down by a heart attack on the living room couch. In those formative years of searching for identity, that death leaves an indelible wound.
After moving to Rome, Lavinia decides to construct a potential life, a virtual universe in which to create multiple alter egos. With the aid of a bold pen, she spreads across the web a variety of profiles, a disinhibited gallery of attitudes and sexual practices designed to lure and dominate. She does it as an exercise in power, detached from any form of pleasure, following a well-rehearsed script that excludes all unpredictability and serves only as both shield and stage.
The growing perils of virtual life will eventually push her to take a break from the web and face what she has never dared to confront in her young life: real life, made of actual bodies and concrete desires. But real bodies and real desires come with pain, grief, shadows, and unbearable fragility. Lavinia then chooses to return to the only place that feels safe and satisfying, seated before the blue glow of her monitor.