It explores the tragic events leading up to the murder of 21-year-old Willy Monteiro Duarte, highlighting the intertwining of chance encounters, rivalries, and latent tensions.
Direction
Alfieri refuses to sensationalize the violence.
Acting
De Vivo's final scenes will wreck you.
Writing
Shows how ordinary cruelty becomes lethal.
Director
Vincenzo Alfieri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Willy Monteiro Duarte's 2020 murder sparked Italy's Black Lives Matter equivalent, exposing systemic racism against Afro-Italian youth.
Director Alfieri grew up in the same Roman suburbs and knew boys like these—he called it 'making a film to understand my own friends.'
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