Qualcuno da odiare

It’s 1937, The eighteen-year-old Abele is a soldier in Italy’s Fascist colonial campaign. For him, the regime represents hope: the chance to open his own bakery and become a baker like his father. Ethiopia is imagined as a land of adventure and conquest. But when the campaign ends and he returns home defeated, Abele collides with reality. The twentieth century is accelerating, hurtling toward the economic boom: supermarkets reach even small provincial towns, divorce is legalized, women demand equal rights.
As time passes, Abele grows old nurturing a muted, persistent anger toward a world that has failed to keep any of its promises. Anger becomes his means of survival; ideology the only lens through which he can make sense of reality and assign blame.
Ludovica, at thirty, carries a similar disillusionment. Trapped in a difficult present, she feels invisible and betrayed by the generations before her. Her life changes when she meets Abele—now over a hundred years old—through a group that claims to care for those on the margins, offering understanding and direction for resentment and loneliness.
It is within this unexpected bond between two distant generations that a possibility emerges: to confront one’s own history, memory, and fears—and perhaps, at last, to question everything.