Luca Costantini

1997: eight-year-old Linda drifts away from her wealthy grandmother's Swiss villa with her carefree mother Eva. In Italy, she meets Azzurra and Marta. A summer bond unites the three girls in a gang formed to protect each other, their youth, and their freedom. Around them swirl selfish parents chasing fragile dreams, gossiping neighbors, and a queer babysitter trying to find his place in a world that doesn’t want him either.

Italy, 1940, dawn of the Second World War. A small group of fascists cook up a scheme to avoid the forthcoming call to arms. In order to do so, they sign up a contract where they accept to be infected with a mysterious and lethal disease: the Ethiopian Fever. Regardless Dr. Suardo's reassurances, who is sure to know how to cure the African disease, a chain of events is going to be triggered, which will lead to a gruesome bloodspread.