25 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestNico, Michele and Daniel arrive at Sebastiano's house where a party is taking place. It seems immediately clear to Nico that Michele's father has no intention of taking his son with him but the boy keeps hoping that he will, ending up being manipulated by his parent. The party degenerates when, driven by alcohol, some of the guests decide to lock Daniel in a closet. Emma, meanwhile, decides to return to the clinic.
Nico is a 16 year old girl who has in her head a chaos in which she can no longer orient herself, made of anxiety attacks, visions and voices that speak to her. After a hallucinatory episode, she is taken in charge by a psychiatric clinic with the diagnosis of schizophrenia and there she meets Michele, Emma and Daniel. The four boys form a group and face together a difficult, but fundamental, path towards self-knowledge and self-acceptance.
Acting
Greta Esposito's physical panic attacks feel dangerously real.
Direction
Vannucci shoots institutional spaces like liminal nightmares.
Sound
The sound design puts you INSIDE Nico's auditory hallucinations.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Italy's mental health system remains heavily institutionalized; this series sparked parliamentary discussion about adolescent psychiatric reform in 2021.
Vannucci cast three leads with lived experience of hospitalization; Esposito spent weeks in a Roman clinic shadowing patients before filming.
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