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“A love story in which the other person is none other than the dark side of yourself. The ability to torture through silences more than through words is the sign of a true talent” ─ Walter Siti

Young troubled souls  and lost parents crash into the walls of a labyrinth.

Drago and Benni have been friends forever, they grew up together, and slowly their affection changed into something more. At least from Drago’s side. Benni, from her side, is impenetrable and you never know what her next move is going to be. When she starts showing the first signs of a behavioural disorder, Drago thinks it’s down to his friend’s eccentric personality. Helping her, however, seems impossible and soon he’s forced to open his eyes and start facing a reality in which good and bad, love and violence, right or wrong blur and blend together without rules. And at the most difficult moment, he will have to decide whether to leave in order to save her. And himself.


Gianmarco Perale was born in Mirano, near Venice, in 1988. He has been living in Milan for five years, where he attended the Belleville writing school. He was a student of Walter Siti. He studied Theater at the Academy in Venice.

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