Mario Bucci

A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

Cesare Dell'Anna is an Italian trumpeter as talented as he is whimsical. Heir to a family of brass band musicians, he and his group Hotel Albania have launched a musical genre steeped in the rhythms brought by Balkan migrants. During summertime, everything is a pretext for playing music on big stages as well as village squares.

"Where Are You From?" - A city of the south in expansion that evicts from his historical center the old inhabitants to entertain others of it wealthier. Three boys threatened by one of these evictions. It will be to them to try to understand from what it departs the justice it is and from what it departs they are them.

Bari, summer 2013. In a city still in shock from the 2011 match-fixing scandal in football, the local team is preparing for a new Serie B season in a hugely precarious economic situation. The owners, the Matarrese family, have pulled back, yet the team will qualify for the playoffs matches despite the declared bankruptcy.

Pasquale Donatone, aka Tony, is the taxi driver who drives us through America land of dreams and Italy land of broken dreams. Tony is a backward deported immigrant. He left italy 40 years ago when he was child and he became American but he did some mistakes, more than one. The biggest was to sign to be deported, instead of go in jail for ten years because of its second work: loading illegal mexicans immigrant and delivery drugs. Now he was deported in a small town in South of Italy, and he has to wait ten years before he can return legally to US but ten years aren’t easy to live. The waiting time is too long and Italy is a country without hopes. For sure he can’t wait anymore. A story of immigration, drug, love and sense of union in a country that change you inside, the United States of America.