CSC – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Sede Sicilia

Young Palermitan Lorenzo must make the FtM transition. He has broken up with his family and wanders between the Foro Italico , in Palermo, Sicily, and his friends' bedrooms to draw, play video games, and have his future told on cards. He measures his desire by the clothes he wants to wear, the tricks he wants to do and the drawings in which he can imagine himself again...

“Pulling up the nets of memory from the depths of the sea, the story of Pino emerges."

An Eritrean woman working in Palermo (Sicily) as a cultural mediator also brings her idea of self-determination to her relationship with her foster son, which proves particularly difficult.

“A fragile journey into childhood, suspended between dream and harsh reality.”

Of how many of our daily actions do we ask ourselves the real why? Especially if one is male, and if one's appearance is given so much for neutrality that it does not represent a disguise, but a simple inevitability of things. A female gaze invites men to ask themselves these whys.