Controra Film

Two thirty-somethings meet in a trendy bar in Rome, feel an instant attraction, and decide to spend the night together. But finding parking in the Pigneto neighborhood is nearly impossible, and they’re forced to drive around for hours. He has a suitcase in the trunk and a secret to protect. She has an aggressive attitude and a hidden fragility she guards closely.

During the late 1960s, Emilio Sidoti, an elementary school teacher in Albisola, decided to make some movies with his students in order to develop their critical gaze in a free and radical expressive pathway. This was the start of “Cinema dei ragazzi,” Italy's first experience of “school and cinema;” it generated over twenty movies, all shot in Super8, and most of them were entirely written, directed, and edited by the children. Starting with the material of the time, this unique experience is put into relation with the present time, as the children of back then - who today are adults - are asked to recount the impression it left on them.