Marta works for a poll company, listening all day to other people's dreams while leading a cold and solitary life. Having just cut off a long relationship, she tries an online sex chat under an alias, meeting a man who begins to advance more and more audacious requests, until they decide to discover their respective identities.
Direction
Maiorca's suffocating framing of Marta's claustrophobic existence
Acting
Rocca's brittle vulnerability masking desperate hunger
Production
Perfectly ugly period tech aesthetic
Director
Donatella Maiorca
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of only a handful of Italian genre films directed by a woman in the 1990s, emerging from the same Catania film scene that produced Tornatore.
The title's @ symbol was deliberately chosen to evoke both email addresses and the Latin 'ad'—toward, or poison.
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