L’Heure d’été

Guido, in his early twenties, lives in a small town in Northern Italy. He has earned respect from his peers through violence in the racist and macho environment he grew up in. But when he meets Sonia, a Kosovar immigrant, something shifts. Guido finds himself torn between the world that made him and the one she’s opening up for him.

Scorching heat in a suburban neighborhood in the South of France. It’s the end-of-year party at the local sports club. Birds are falling from their nests, wildfires are raging, and Kiki remains under the spell of her Bad Star.

In 2018, a user called AnathematicAnarchist published a suicide note in an online forum for incels – a subculture of heterosexual men whose self-pity, misogyny and fantasies of violence dominate the internet in many places and trigger offline actions in some. Did he really take his own life? Is America responsible for his death, as he claims in his text? A search for clues in the darkest corners of the net, an essay about pain and loneliness in the age of algorithms.