Sangue sporco

In a violent, marginalised Rome, at the end of the 1970s, a relationship of redemption and friendship develops at first between two children, then two young girls, and finally two women.

Late Seventies: a recently created district on the border with hell. The dream of a council block of flats that immediately turns into a nightmare. Scilla is four years old when she sees in her father’s face the resentful resignation to the life that awaits his family. And yet in this degraded, violent space there is also Renata, a couple of years older than her, who becomes her best friend. Consequently, Scilla and Renata grow up amid the crumbling high rises and develop a complex, increasingly intense friendship that is also made up of attraction and desire, a kind of refuge where they can hide from a reality where syringes bloom in flower pots, and redemption always carries guilt. Because in a place where dreaming is forbidden, life erodes all bonds, separates fates and pushes people apart. It always leaves, however, a hope of salvation.