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At the end of the summer of his nineteen years Attilio, a boy who lives in a working-class neighborhood of Naples, is tasked with protecting a young prostitute from the East. Attilio, without being able to openly admit it, falls in love with her. However, when his father is released from prison and is forced to repay a substantial debt, Attilio finds himself choosing between his love for the girl and his love for his father, putting his freedom and his life up to that point at stake.

A twenty-year-old mother named Clara struggles with her role, finding herself unfit. She resorts to unsavory jobs and decides to abandon her daughter Amanda.

A father, just out of prison, wants to spend some time with his eleven-year-old son.

In the countryside around Caserta, a 44 years old man and his wife raise buffaloes. Local Mob needs their land to increase business.

A cross documentary/fiction story set in southern Italy (Puglia) in the 70s. A TV program of today tells the former story of Sabino, a young boy fond of jazz music, who at the time emigrated to North, as many others.

During the 70s in Italy, Pasquale Abatangelo, a former hippie and bank robber from Florence, fights for prisoners' rights in Italy. He is present at all the major riots that have swept through Italy's prisons.

In the Campania countryside, Pasquale Cardinale, an elder ranger, spends his days between alcohol and video poker. To settle the debts he organizes a scam of 200 white pure goldfinches, replacing them with common ones, but it will not end as expected.

Carmela is thirty, beautiful and as untamed as an horsewoman. She is jobless and struggles to get by on her own, doing small day-to-day tasks. She makes ends meet by making use of the immigrants who populate the maze of alleyways of Naples' old historic centre. A circle of hell where, even to get a residence permit, you have to pay to work.

A young woman who prostitutes herself as an act of self- punishment and a serial-killing lawyer, find themselves united in an unusual connection made up of silences, gestures and secrets.

When a TV show makes fun of the mafia and makes the inhabitants less afraid of them, the actors are soon getting threats by the criminal organization.

Among the narrow streets of contemporary Naples, 'Hide and Seek' ('Nascondino') follows four years in the life of nine-year-old Entoni and his grandmother Dora during a critical state crackdown on crime that threatens Entoni's future with forced removal and imprisonment.

Ermanno lives surrounded by commonplaces about Naples and Scampia: harassed by crime news that describe these cities as a dantesque inferno of shootings, murders, drug dealers. Nevertheless, ordinary good people who do not get into the news live in Scampia. When he finally gets to Naples to sign a deal as a contractor for a project that will boost his career, he has to face reality: the meeting is in a warehouse in Scampia.