Sette giorni d’estate

A scorching summer evening, a boy is attacked in the central town square. Federico is seventeen, with the gentle nature of someone who has not yet fully shed childhood, yet he decides not to report the incident and to prove himself stronger in order to overcome the shame of humiliation. His assailant, Savio, is only nineteen but already entrenched in a dangerous local criminal circle. Elisa is his girlfriend—intelligent, popular, and well-liked, yet completely under Savio’s control, trapped in a toxic relationship and sometimes used to deliver drugs to his clients. Watching the assault from the café where he works is Simone, who is unable to intervene. At twenty-five, he feels suffocated by a poorly paid job that drains the energy he needs to complete his law degree. He falls for Barbara, a colleague full of shadows and secrets, but his love is unrequited. The lives of Federico, Elisa, Simone, and Barbara intertwine over seven days of a scorching summer, as events spiral into fierce violence. When a murder shakes public opinion, it seems that the bottom has been reached—but it is only the necessary beginning of a collective atonement.