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Mr. Nothing is a bitter fairy tale about two young men who meet on an app: one loves unreservedly, while the other seduces and destroys, incapable of opening up. Caught between illusion and fear, he chooses the void over love.
After his mother's death, Luca finds he has hit rock bottom. Living on the streets among the homeless, to somehow feel closer to her, he finally decides to go back home for his father's birthday where something magical just might happen.
This film exposes the hidden dangers of dating apps driven by the urgent consumption of sex and entertainment. Behind simple profile pictures often hide pathological narcissists and ambiguous characters. Looking for fleeting encounters, they prey on vulnerable users through flattery and deception. In this virtual world, emotional connection is entirely absent. Everyone becomes a mere object of desire in a perverse, addictive game of dominance and submission that detaches users from reality. Ultimately, the virtual realm takes over, leading to a profound depersonalization where human beings are completely stripped of their humanity.
Mario, a retired conductor, spends his days in a luxury resort in the south of England. He has been suffering from Alzheimer's for some time and is often assailed by sudden memories that he then he, punctually, he forgets. He lives with the fear that illness can erase his past, made up of fame and success. But above all of the love of his wife Amelia, who died years earlier, and of his daughter Michela who one day hopes to find again in a place far from time ...
An obsessive and almost surreal love story between Alessandro, a young model of rare beauty, and Sofia, an Argentine girl who has ended up in Rome for a strange game of destiny. Young couple having to adapt at all costs to the logic of this new world, are increasingly forced to live in a dramatic detachment from reality.
