Giuseppe Romanelli

While vacationing on the crowded beaches of Riccione, a group of teenagers becomes fast friends as they grapple with relationship issues and romance.

A struggling Puglian restaurateur, hit by war-driven price hikes, persuades friends to revive decades-old cigarette smuggling, using the illicit trade as a metaphor to expose the political, cultural, and environmental abandonment of the Brindisi-Taranto region.