Synopsis
Michele, Emanuele and Ornella. Three lives that cross for an existential void that they try to fill with addictions: some from drugs and from Botox, some from their mother and from the disastrous family context and those from their sexual impulses perhaps never really explicit. Each of these figures seeks their own place in the world by asking to be loved.
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