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Cesare is a special child, who talks and plays Memory with his multi-ethnic Barbie circle, chose Ines aka Lines as a friend so as not to stay alone in line at school, spends his afternoons with an old woman who sprinkles perfume on him, secretly hated by his parents as they think she foments his antics. His life in the small town could have continued same as always, if it was not shaken by the transfer of his entire family into a micro-flat in the miserable outskirts of Milan, move his father insists on for some mysterious work project. Upstairs, though, lives Gabbo, who makes Cesare, now grown up, so damn excited, because Gabbo is all that Caesar would like to be: determined to take everything from life, whatever the cost. He’s like a flesh& bone magnet for Cesare. So, when his father is arrested, his mother takes refuge in bed, and his brother disappears, Cesare decides to rise from the depths of his abandonment. Following in Gabbo’s wake who has been around for a while and who always has a lot of money, Cesare ends up meeting Franco Mori, who loves young boys. What Cesare does not expect is that the demands Franco Mori, a dirty guy missing teeth, makes, will produce a strange fascination on him, a tension similar to the one he had for Gabbo. A fascination that overcomes logic and will, that excites him like sugar and is as repugnant as tar, and that in the end will ask for a cost, one he has to, perhaps too much, pay dearly for. The situation will plummet by Mori\’s request to meet his friends, friends with whom Cesare will try to organize an extortion.