TIES sceneggiatura

Ties

Written by Annabella Dal Canto

Registration Number: 2025245 EXPIRATION DATE: 10/8/2024 (c)

via L.da Vinci n1
San Donato di San Miniato PISA

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INT DAY SAN DONATO

Fixed image on some truffles, placed inside a small ceramic bowl. The TV is on and Italy is competing in the tokyo 2020 world championships. In 2021. Resumption of the calendar alongside. Drops of water flowing from an ice cold drink. A hand with rings takes the drink and brings it to his mouth. Tamberi wins gold in the high jump, shortly after another Italian wins gold in the race. Francesco rejoices. He takes a pillow and throws it

Deadlift

A photo falls, a photo of three laughing boys are very young. They have a sign. 2021

EXT DAY SAN DONATO

Drone overview of the town, group of luxury houses and several people walking around the town people with ice cream, a lady talking on the benches with another lady.

FRANCESCO (VO)
(vo) Life is funny. Sometimes it takes you from

behind and pulls you up while other times it pulls you down. But I'm not up or down. I half live. Half what I might be, and half what the others

they want me to be.

Arrival of a group of children, the alpha group tries to capture the delta group, the alpha group is made up of well-dressed bullies, the delta group is made up of an Italian, a Korean and a Senegalese. They try to hide from the sight of the alpha group.

DETACHMENT

FRANCIS (VO) (cont'd)
(vo) you see that beautiful boy with blond hair,

here it is not me ... here I am here I am this chubby brat, and he is Jong (the Korean) and he is Amid, How we met now I explain.

INT DAY MIDDLE SCHOOL

Amid enters the classroom, and sits in the third row, next to a girl, she gets up and moves to another desk, Then comes jung, is seen badly by everyone, they make faces and pull his eyes. Finally Francesco arrives sweaty with glasses nerd with a block sticking out of his backpack. He sits next to Jung and Amid, he too is outcast,

The bell rings and close up on Francesco's feet on the ground we see Francesco pulled to the ground by a boy, who apologizes without looking at him and goes away,

INT DAY SCHOOL BATHROOMS

Francesco starts to go out and hears his companions talking badly about him, he pulls back

EXT DAY MIDDLE SCHOOL

We see Jung being shunned by the people and returning home alone, we see Amid returning home alone and Francesco's father's van loading him in the back and taking him home.

INT DAY HOUSE OF FRANCIS

Francesco is sitting at his desk in front of the window, his room is full of treasures from the realm of nerds, action figure comics and posters everywhere, the voices of his parents arguing

FRANCESCO (VO)
(it's always like this, he leaves and she

stays)
We hear a door slam and the van drive away.

INT NIGHT FRANCIS'S ROOM

Noise of breaking glasses, Franscesco is awake in his bed and listening to the noises, his mother outside swears, mumbling tipsy. Then he enters Francesco's room. He turns on the light and screams.

father ... She pulls off the covers

MARTA
It's your fault, yours if that damn day I came

back to this house, this sewer hole. You shouldn't have come into the world, you keep me here, how long will you keep me here? Why don't you do like your father and go! and Clean this room that sucks.

takes various objects and close up on the hands that crumple the posters, tears them breaks them, pulls down the posters, then slams the door and exits.

Francesco is trembling under the covers, he cries in silence, the tears gush copiously, without uttering a groan, his chest rises and falls rapidly, he feels suffocated in this situation.Continues crying then slowly gets up and opens the door, His mother sleeps lying on the bed with a smile on her face, Francesco quietly closes the door and cleans up the room, when he's finished it's dawn. The rooster is singing and his mother is awake. He quickly slips under the covers and pretends to sleep

MARTA (cont'd)
You little filthy worm, look how he sleeps, all his

MARTA (cont'd) Get up you have to go to school!

Francesco pretends to wake up and gets up immediately,

MARTA (cont'd)
Look how fat you are you suck, today I sign you

No mom pleaseFRANCIS

MARTA
They will force you to go there every day until you

to the gym.

are like Marco,
Short flash of blond child running soccer

All right Francesco is resigned.

FRANCIS

FRANCIS (cont'd)
Mom, are you taking me to school today?

MARTA
Take the bus that at least walk a little and it's

good for you to go.

INT DAY BUS

Francesco is in the front rows, he talks and greets the driver, he gives him some security, looks at his classmates, Marco is next to Giulia, there is also jade nearby

We see Giulia in slow motion, we understand that Francesco likes it, but she doesn't really want to do it, on the contrary.

DETACHMENT

We see Giulia with Marco and other school children, while they kiss, first with Marco, then with two others ..

DETACHMENT

INT DAY HOUSE OF JUNG

Jung arrives home, he starts talking to his mother and his little sister, he plays jokes, he is a happy child, his family has a general store near his home, he talks to some boys in his country

JUNG I would like to return,

FRANCESCO (VO)
She was as beautiful as a white flower, but that

pure white that attracted me has turned to ashes. to please others.

FEI FRIEND OF JUNG
If you like it we can start online in the meantime

and then maybe if you come let's continue

Jung stands in front of the computer and mentions some dance steps and some songs. Is good,. His mother looks at him curiously from the door, when he notices it, she slams the door in his face

JUNG Mom come on I'm ashamed

JUNG'S MOTHER
After a few seconds the mother reopens the door and approaches it.

INT DAY HOUSE OF AMID

Amid has his younger sister Samira around his neck and his older sister is setting the table, his mother is in the kitchen preparing food, his father opens the door it's dirty and full of paint. The boy turns up his nose at the smell of tannery he gives off.

SARAH
Take a bath and come to the table

DETACHMENT

INT DAY HOUSE OF FRANCIS Crash, loud noise of dishes,

Okay okay..

Samel, wrinkles the clothes, a short time later he returns neat and pinto and everyone gets up and goes to the table, before the father is served

and Amid who eat almost detached and for

last the women.

his wife smiles at him Amid looks at him a little sideways but immediately realizes that it will be good for him.

LEYLA
I don't want to go back to Senegal, I like the life

SAMEL
The head tanner promised me that he will

teach me this new process, if all goes well in two years we will return to Dakar and open the tannery there.

I have here
Samael looks at her, her mother pulls her by the dress and takes her away.

SAMEL
Amid, You will have to learn this trade, it is the

males who get by, who bring the food to the table

Yes father.

AMID

MARTA
With what money did you buy this? Did you steal

my money from my wallet? Are you a thief, a thief? My son is a thief! Come on, I'll show you how thieves live.

Marta drags Francesco up the stairs and loads him into the car. Travel for a while then along the avenue we see shady people stealthy strolling near houses.

MARTA (cont'd)
You see them, here they are, that's what thieves

do, they are filthy filthy, they travel at night, they enter houses and

A dog barks from a distance and the sound of a burglar alarm goes off, Martha looks in the direction of the sound.

MARTA (cont'd)
And then they kill kids like you and sell them to

pieces, organs for
organ. to get gold out of it.

As he says it, he points to every part of his body.

MARTA (cont'd)
If you were a female, they would rape you or sell

you to an Arab, you would be meat, your life is a pinch, now you feel it and then you don't feel it anymore.

Francesco cries and is terrified he has tears in his eyes.

FRANCIS

Mom

MARTA
Don't be a pussy, go out, go talk to us, let's

see,
He pushes it towards the people, Francesco opposes it.

Please no

FRANCIS

MARTA
you're like your father, spineless, a tiny useless

rat, move on let's go,

He pulls it into his car and goes home.

INT DAY SCHOOL

7. CUT TO:

Francesco is looking at Jung playing with his pen, he looks like a magician passing it through all his fingers back and forth. Jung is doing math, obviously he's good, Amid looks at him perplexed.

Jung makes both of them listen to Korean music, amid looks at him dazed, Francesco likes it.

jung goes to the toilet, is pushed to the floor,

CHILD X
Hey Chinese guy. Back home.

Jung has a bruise on his hand. He leaves the bathroom hiding it, goes back to class and Francesco sees him, passes him a handkerchief and covers his hand. Amid gets up and goes to the bathroom, finds baby x

AMID
Hey was it you who pushed Jung?

In the meantime, the others also arrive.

CHILD X
Hey latte, what do you want? Go back to

A chant starts from the children around who imitate the cry of the monkeys.

The janitor arrives, divides the boys and then turns to the air

vucumpra

BIDELLA
Ah, this immigrants always messing

Francesco is at home doing his homework on the table, his mother is ironing and smoking behind him, - detail - pauses more than necessary on an exercise.

FRANCIS Mom I can't solve it

DETACHMENT

around ...

MARTA
And it seemed to you, and what do they teach

you in that school, what do the teachers think we have to do for them? stuff...

DETACHMENT

Francesco and his mother are ringing a bell, an elegant middle-aged lady, a teacher, opens the door. Marta squeezes the child's arm tightly ..

MARTA (cont'd)
This is Stefano, my son, as I explained to her on

the phone, she doesn't understand math, I leave it in her hands.

the old teacher enters the house with the child, and as they walk through the house to the study she asks him questions

PROFESSOR
So Francesco, how are you at school?

Francesco replies monosyllabic

PROFESSOR (cont'd) Can you also tell me why you have long

sleeves in May? I can?

He raises the shirt a little and notices a large hand-shaped bruise on his arm. The child withdraws.

PROFESSOR (cont'd) Maybe it's better if you come more often,

EXT DAY HOUSE OF FRANCIS

A few months have passed, Francesco Amid and Jung are outside the gate talking, his mother's car enters the driveway

DETACHMENT

I tell your mom.

MARTA
Franscesco, come here immediately, you have to

stop being with those guys, you understand you are the laughing stock of the neighborhood.

FRANCIS They're my friends

MARTA
You have no friends, you are a waste of society,

you are useless, go take these things and bring them into the house

Francesco secretly greets his friends and goes home.

Amid and Jung walk home in silence, drive past Jung's parents, quickly get out of the car and scold him and let him get into the car. Amid pretends nothing has happened and arrives near the house, some black guys surround him,

BOY X
Don't you like being with your people? A

retarded Italian and a Chinese, they steal our jobs, they are mafia, what do you want to do eh?

Samel the father of Amid arrives and grumbles to them

SAMEL
Where is your mother eh, and your father, are

they working to feed you and you instead? Sell bags or who knows what else, instead of criticizing go on.

The boys apologize and sadly walk away

SAMEL (cont'd)
You are a son of Allah, like everyone on this earth,

but you really like to make me come down the mountain ...

FRANCESCO (VO)
You see the whole world is a country, they say,

but I want to change this country, this land made of hypocrisy and destruction I want to change it to my likeness, because inside we are made of the same organs and the same red blood.

INT DAY HOUSE OF JUNG

PARK FATHER OF JUNG So I can go inside

WON CHEOL CONNECT
The prosecutor's investigation is over, they

acquitted her completely President can come back

PARK FATHER OF JUNG Was that wretch caught?

WON CHEOL CONNECT Yes, the police have custody while ...

PARK FATHER OF JUNG
min-ha --- He's still at the psychiatrist's and out

of work right? , I hope you are happy again when I get back.

WON CHEOL CONNECT What is the beautiful country like anyway?

PARK FATHER OF JUNG
I chose it because it is a peninsula like ours, they

better defend the sea, but like us they don't have a plan for young people, suicide is hidden like bullying and like us they have a corrupt and inadequate political class for new development. but the Italians are full of talent and are good people taken individually.

Jung listens from the door

WON CHEOL CONNECT How will your wife and jung take

it?

PARK FATHER OF JUNG
The lady is already compulsively shopping for

designer clothes. Jung wants to be a singer so I think in the end our country is better for him, he has never fully integrated here.

Jung walks to the room, sits down and opens his songbook - we read with jung's voice - A music video starts

10.

EXT NIGHT CITY
A girl runs from behind she cries, is dragged into a room, arrives in a dark room,

The lights come on, Jung is in the middle, taken up in changle, dancing modern dance, a light comes on above him, the moon is reflected in her eyes, he turns it off, and pulls her to the ground, and disappears. windows explode in the chorus, "cause I'll say goodbye"

JUNG (VO)
Take me drag me, cling to me, as if I were the

necessary air, in an immense embrace, tell me every image I have of you is just me and you, hold me because I will say goodbye to this place, in this moonless night I will look at you one last time in the eyes without saying, I will feel as lost as fallen into a frozen lake because tonight I will say goodbye

EXT DAY GARDENS NEAR THE SCHOOL

Jung is rehearsing a dance, Amid is looking at his cell phone and talking to Francesco who is drawing comics.

What happens? FRANCIS

AMID
My father, he will take us all away I know. In the

country where we are, he bought a large warehouse, he said he wants to do a tannery there

JUNG And isn't that good?

AMID
Now I grew up here, I don't know if I could

adapt to the culture over there

JUNG
Didn't you keep the schedules, or some things

like us?

11.

AMID
Yes and no, if I had been born there I would

already have a girlfriend

FRANCIS
As far as I know you have it in fact

AMID
She's my fourth cousin, you know what a

JUNG Have you ever seen it?

AMID
No or rather only when he was in swaddling clothes

beauty ...

JUNG
Well also in korea we get married sometimes

between relatives, there are three surnames in korea where most of the families come from, in fact they have put a kind of veto to avoid marrying between families with the same surname

FRANCIS
No asp 3 surnames in all of korea?

JUNG Well now it's 250

AMID
Incredible .. who knows how many surnames

FRANCIS
I don't know it's an entire continent, but in Italy I

JUNG Alone?

FRANCIS

Thousands

The boys laugh, their laughter is heard by a group of boys at the end of the street who get up from the bench and go towards them, in front of them Marco

MARCO
Hey retards, what the fuck are you laughing

at?

there are in Africa

think there are 350

12.

Francesco intervenes, defends him, is taken by another boy, marco throws a punch in the stomach, Someone beats Amid, and fills him with kicks, Jung is pushed to the ground and a boy climbs on top of him, breaks his wrist,

BOY X
So you don't dance more fagot than a

Some women arrive and send them away, they pick up the boys and call an ambulance, they are loaded quickly and the siren goes away.

INT. HOSPITAL DAY

Francesco is sitting on a hospital chair, there is no one with him, amid has his parents around, while Jung's parents are running towards the stretcher where jung is lying. Parents look at each other as if they were saying goodbye to Italy. The hours go by. Francesco is always there, while Jung is swaddled and can go out, while Amid is now gone with his family. Night falls. The nurse asks him for the thousandth time if he has another cell phone to call. The carabinieri arrive, they take Francesco and take him home. His mother pretends to arrive by car, follows the carabinieri car from the hospital to his home and when Francesco is now alone outside the house he enters and locks him out. Francesco sits down on a bench and still with sore lips remains there.

The noise of his father's truck wakes him up, the damp stuck to his shirt, his father is tired he can't see him, Francesco hides, so as not to be seen, before the door closes he sneaks in, gets dressed under the covers and pulls the sheet over his head before his father walks into the room, kisses him on the head and exits.

Francesco dreams
EXT DAY HOUSE OF FRANCESCO FLASHBACK

Images of a country life: children playing football, grandfather and father looking at the hood of the van, the grandmother holding it around her neck, she is only a few months old, her mother is happy dancing and singing while holding out the clothes. The neighbor looks at her, the grandfather feels bad falls, screams,

Chinese.

13.

INT DAY HOUSE OF FRANCIS

Francesco wakes up. The screams continue. His mother is on a war footing. Ivano is sitting at the table with breakfast in front of him, his mother is preparing the coffee

MARTA
So are you going away today?

IVANO
Yes, there is the last shipment to send, but I'll

give you some news, since I'm alone with me, Francesco.

MARTA
Good boy ! Go away you and your son

IVANO
(in a low voice) what did you give him?

MARTA What did I owe him?

IVANO It's her birthday today

MARTA
Yes bah, your son is a donkey like you, with

everything he does he spends on repetitions you also have to buy him something! No nothing, as long as I like.

IVANO
Oh get it over with, I take my baby and you

away, get ready to leave my house if you keep talking about me .. my dad was right, you are ..

We see dishes bouncing on the table, bread crumbs on the table,

FRANCESCO (VO)
And here we are, welcome to my world of Mulino

bianco, by the way it's for sale

ah women as my father used to say, he was better off afraid than touching them.

14.

INT DAY VAN OF IVANO BABBO DI FRANCESCO

The van proceeds along the streets, Francesco is waving on the radio, his father looks at his hands and the wounds on the side of his mouth

IVANO tell me what happened?

Ah nothing I fellFRANCIS

IVANO
Does Mom behave well with you? When you grow

up, promise me that
you will find your way without anyone telling you what to do.

Francesco's gaze is terrified, the radio plays an old song "Sea scent of the sea," then a voice message arrives. It is repeated in the stereo of the van.

Hi Ivano, I'm Giulia, are you passing by my area today? because I wanted to tell you things, and then you know it without you, here, I feel alone and ..

The father blocks the phone ..

IVANO (cont'd)
Ah, you know she is a colleague of mine, she

is always a little sick, and I often go to see her, you too will have friends, right?

Francesco nods without thinking, we see a cut on the radio and a loud noise of brakes and a crash.

Francesco staring at an empty wall against the light bandaged has several cuts on his face. Look sad at a painting
of the hospital. around him in a deafening silence, the mother is dragged away by infirmaries, we see in focus the face of francesco catatonica is behind the mother's quarrel with the health workers ...

EXT DAY CEMETERY

The gaunt faces of his relatives, Francesco is alone in front of his father's coffin.

15.

FRANCESCO (VO)
One day my father died, and I couldn't rest,

how could we have lived without him.

The mother smokes a cigarette and cries, she has a tight black dress and visible stockings, Francesco Tredicenne looks surly

FRANCIS (VO) (cont'd)
Mum loved her in her own way, they met one

night at a disco during halloween, mum was dressed up as a boy and dad as a girl

EXT NIGHT DANCING GENS HALLOWEEN SHOOT WITH MOBILE PHONE

Among the dancing crowd there are 2 groups, one made up of three girls and one made up of 4 guys, including Samantha Ronchi and a man. (Nile)

FRANCESCO (VO)
She came back from shows around the world,

he worked as a plumber, they got married in common and in church, their grandfather paid for everything and for a while they were the most beautiful couple in the world, at least until I was born.

INT DAY HOUSE OF FRANSCESCO
Monstrously fattened Martha complaining about everything,

IVANO
well tell me what you want me to do

MARTA
It is you who have reduced me so it is your fault

that I carry this THING in my belly, I can no longer sing or do the shows reduced like this,

watch me! If we have to do this we will do it together, tomorrow you will quit your job and stay home with me,

16.

INT DAY HOUSE OF FRANCIS

Roundup of various images. Ivano who feeds franscesco, who cleans him, while his mother is at the door looking at him, she who leaves the house with a bag, he who feeds the baby, she who tries to take the baby on the neck to breastfeed it and then pushes it away,

IVANO
You should at least try to be a mother

MARTA
I don't feel any emotion holding it in my arms, I

just feel an enormous darkness that oppresses my soul

FRANCESCO (VO)
Let's say that maternal instinct was not really for

her, but she faced it day by day ..

EXT DAY CEMETERY

The shop assistants put Ivano's photo on the tombstone, Franscesco and his mother go off into the shady driveway and climb aboard a black family dacha.

FRANCESCO (VO)
That day my mother gave me a speech

EXT DAY GARDEN OF CASA FRANSCESCO
The garden had tall grass and the sky is gray with big clouds.

MARTA
Let's try to understand you and I, you will always

remain my son, and this will never change, but the mother has to find someone to look after her and you, if she wants.

INT NIGHT FRANSCESCO'S HOUSE

Doors open, Marta is in a loving attitude towards another guy, we see the same scene several times with people in different clothes but then in the morning she introduces him to Franscesco and they leave the house in one way and another.

17.

EXT DAY BRIDGE

Francesco is leaning against a bridge with his bike, he looks at the sky, we see images of him, jung and amid in slow motion while they are having fun, they try some dances, they are good at commitment, jung also sings, under the streets, they laugh and then passes a group of girls,they look at them, there is one

look of understanding between francis and a mysterious blonde.

INT DARK ROOM

We see Francesco under a sheet that blows the wind, then the beating of a heart, the camera goes in front of him and climbs over him, the sheet rises and he is kneeling on the ground the camera approaches him and he turns around His chariots are stars as if he sees a way of colors, from this moment the film will always be full of pink colors. Francesco's PPP the camera moves away and vanishes, full of galaxy colors.

EXT DAY LOCATION 1 CITIZEN SKYLINE Francesco jung amid, they dance
Ext shed
Ext under bridge graffiti

Ext in front of the murals
In various places, cut to jun, change location

EXT DAY LOCATION 2 IN FRONT OF THE FLORENCE LIBRARY

a luxury car passes close up on the wheels and on the bodywork of the car, we see a black glass drop down and a brunette girl looks at her, it's Giada) I dance cut to Amid

FRANCESCO (VO)
Who knows when the girls began to be polite?

Being with my friends made me happy but there was
something else I was missing.

18.

EXT. LIBRARY DAY

Amid jung and francesco are around a table with some books and the open computers close up on the books and the pc keyboard.

AMID
But do you remember when Jung got the

wrong class and Professor Falorni wanted to punish him, because he had it wrong for QIN

FRANCIS
But then the gym teacher came and they went

to smoke, and they never talked about it anymore

JUNG
What then, why he wanted to punish me, he

knew other than her. Qin and I are completely different

FRANCIS
Don't be angry, Asians are all the same to

AMID Like black people

FRANCIS
As well as the Europeans for you.

people

AMID
Yes, but at least we have many writers but we

don't learn them all at school like you do.

FRANCIS
In the end I believe that in every country at the

same time, perhaps with a gap of a few hundred years, we all wrote the same things, like we have Manzoni I promessi sposi which dates back to 1827, in Korea we find a similar story but much more bloody in 1500

19.

INT DAY CASTLE OF KINGS MYEINGJONG

Brides lined up in traditional Korean wedding dress, slapped the boy crying outside dragged away by people, the KING raping the girl on the bed, falling of a red veil, drops of water turning into blood, the girl with a pin that kills the king in one night, the boy sees it, the camera moves away quickly and rotates like a vortex the door closes.

JUNG
Yes the story of King Myeongjong,, he forced a

girl to be his wife, but she loved another, the king took the boy and made him a eunuch and had him watch as the king raped the girl night after night, but one night he killed the king with a pin in his neck ...

Marta arrives out of breath close up on Marta's bag hitting the boys' table.

MARTA
Then you want to stop standing there without

doing anything, move!

FRANCIS

Francesco picks up all his notebooks and quickly slips them into his bag and disappears behind his mother, trying to apologize to his friends with gestures.

I'm coming.

INT DAY GARAGE OF PALAZZO

Amid, Jung and Francesco try portable speaker stereos

(shooting in motion)

EXT DAY CAVE IMAGINATION

The dance steps with a

Big jung, little jung, big francis little francis and big Amid and little Amid dance, (es not today bts) with people dressed in black behind them.

20.

EXT DAY GARDENS

Francesco Jung and Amid say goodbye. Amid takes a souvenir photo, we see them in a row watching the sunset embraced ..

JUNG
Let's do this if one day the World Cups and the

Europeans fall within a year of each other

we meet in front of Francesco's house.

We see the drone passing over the boys with their hands together for the promise. and the sign. Shooting in the face

FRANCESCO (VO)
That day My days turned gray, it was all home

school, screams, music videos, nights spent listening to my mother's moans and the morning owls, the rooster crowing even before dawn as if he too was out of tune from this life. I turned on the TV and put my headphones on when my mother wasn't there and the house became my nightclub.

We see an image of francis who grows older with the same clothes, and the same moves as a child.

INT HOUSE OF FRANCIS YOUNG

His mother drags him to the ground, then beats him again and again, he runs away from the door

EXT ROADS AT NIGHT PONTE DELL'ARNO RAIN

Francesco cries and is wet, he has wounds on him. Arriving at the bridge we see his hands gripping the fence, his feet rising,

From a distance, a fifth of a little girl (Anna) who is still, looks at the child, then snaps and goes to him, pulls him away from the fence and both fall to the ground. there is some standing time.

DETACHMENT

21.

EXT ROADS CORNER COVERED BY RAIN

Bench, Francesco and Anna are next to each other, drowning by putting patches and dressing Francesco's wounds.

ANNA
What did you want to do? Haven't you thought

about the people who care about you? How would they feel if you were no longer in the world?

FRANCIS
My mother doesn't want me, my father is

dead, what should I do?

ANNA
Live, do it for you. Show him that you are

stronger, grit your teeth, move on. When you grow up it will be better.

FRANCIS

ANNA

It must be
Anna gives him a big smile, then gets up and walks away.

ANNA (cont'd) Come home okey? Hi.

INT NIGHT FRANCESCO HOUSE

We see an image of francis who grows older with the same clothes, and the same moves as a child.

INT CLOTHING STORE

Francesco (30s) works as a salesman, the blonde girl passes in front of the window with a brunette girl next to him (it's Giada da Giovane), stops, goes back and we see the camera that frames a very close-up of Francesco folding the clothes.

INT FRANCESCO ACCOUNTING OFFICE

Francesco's world is gray, you can see him putting paper in place, talking on the phone, going home,

Are you sure?

22.

INT RAIN EVENING HOUSE OF FRANCIS

he sees his mother lying on the bed smoking and the bills on the table. Filthy. a photo falls, there are the three of them in the old polaroid, he takes it and smiles, then puts it in place.

He takes a glass of whiskey at the window and drinks looking out, he sees a girl with an umbrella staring at the moon and looking at her, it's the blonde girl. He sees her eyes crying, then his mother calls him, he turns around and when he turns to look again he's gone-

He throws down the glass, puts it on the table and goes out. RAINS.

EXT NIGHT ROAD
Francesco runs in the rain but does not find it,

FRANCIS I must have gone mad

INT OFFICE OF DR HOVER

Francesco's boss is a man with few scruples, always very well dressed, after a meeting he takes him aside

DR HOVER
Your mom went out of her way to get you into my

company, but
however it was your qualities that made you prevail over others, However you have to start playing dirty if you want to move forward.

FRANCIS
I know it could be my downfall but I don't want

to sell out, and I want a good night's sleep, so no thanks.

DR HOVER
I understand .. Mr. Martello's practice.

FRANCIS
Francesco, here she is, everything is ready for the

last signature, if you want check.

23.

Miss Lucia?

DR HOVER

FRANCIS
We changed her ticket, and I made her find a

present in her hotel room, the taxi driver will pick her up at nine to take her to us. The contract is already printed and is in the meeting room. Here is his copy.

DR HOVER Perfect. As always. You can go.

Francesco bows his head and leaves, let's see, drhover lingering on his body.

INT DUSK FRANCESCO'S APARTMENT

Francesco is seated on the white sofa, dressed in white with white curtains that are parallel to his face, creating a gap between the sunset sky behind him and his face.

Franscesco runs towards the door and remains on the donut of the door. And stares into the void outside.

INT OFFICE OF DR HOVER

Francesco is reviewing some paperwork on the computer, a boy arrives and places himself on the desk next to his

MARCO
Hi, my name is Marco, nice to meet you.

Francesco observes him for a moment, and recognizes him as the bully he used to be when he was little.

FRANCIS Pleased to meet you, I'm Francesco.

FRANCESCO (VO)
It's funny how life and people take long

rides and then come back.

Francesco observes him, he remained more or less as he remembered it.

The drHover gives him some work to do, we see dr Hover he looks at a note on a folder.

24.

Then he goes to Francesco's desk and gives him the car keys.

DR HOVER
Tomorrow Ms. Choom will send her daughter

to look at the new plans for the apartment. He asked that you go and get it.

FRANCIS

EXT DAY AIRPORT
A young girl and a boy are talking animatedly outside

The girl's name is Giada Choom, she is dressed in elegant clothes, the boy Y is definitely a few years younger than her, and she is dressed in a ripped shirt and a pair of jeans with a chain, all three look alike in some way. FRancesco Giada and Pino.

PINE TREE
I told you not to call me anymore

All right.

JADE
You can't tell me what to do or what not to do,

now call me a taxi and help me with these suitcases

PINE TREE
I have already told you that I am not your valet, I

have made you my proposal and you have refused it

JADE
And what would it be? You want us to pretend to

get together because I have millions of followers and so you have popularity

PINE TREE
Think about it, you would be the famous heiress

and I would be the toy boy, we would be like madonna and that famous dancer

JADE
No thanks, however good you have already

made your mental film.

25.

Francesco leaning against the car listens to the whole scene until Pino notices him.

PINE TREE
Who are you? are you done?

FRANCIS He sent me here ...

PINE TREE Nobody asked you

We see Jade go towards him and kiss him,

JADE
I've been waiting for you for a while.

Giada winks at Francesco who has remained still. Francesco takes her head in his hands and kisses her again so that it looks real from PINO's view. at that point Pino turns and goes away!

Francesco nods,

JADE (cont'd) Dr hover sent you right?

FRANCIS
We are looking at the renovation of her next

apartment, I have booked her a suite at the hotel so she can relax and then tomorrow we will go to see the apartment

JADE
Is there just this to relax?

INT LOCAL NIGHT
Francesco and Giada dance, and have fun in a disco.

EXT NIGHT CAR
Francesco who leaves Giada in front of the hotel and leaves.

CUT TO:

26.

EXT DAY OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY STREET IN FRONT OF THE OLD HOUSE OF FRANCIS.

Tracking of the sky, lightning, a storm is coming, some kids are playing

on the side of the road, the car continues up to a house. Police lights reflect off the walls. A man, surrounded by police officers in his 60s, cries and collapses to the ground.

CUT TO:

INT LATE AFTERNOON HOUSE OF POLICE OFFICER GIACOMO TESEI

A plainclothes officer and a woman in suit talk. They seem to have known each other for some time.

JADE
I don't think he knows anything.

Here we understand that Giada is a Crimonologist, GIACOMO POLICE

Already

JADE
However, she has been missing for more

than twenty-four hours

GIACOMO POLICE
The husband says she was a regular visitor to

the parish, we could start looking there
GIada takes a folder of songs on the table, leafs through it with gloves

JADE
I'd say from the church choir.

A cell phone rings. Giada replies, and Mrs. Ronchi's car has been found

EXT NIGHT OUTSIDE THE CHURCH

A sedan parked near an olive grove and the steps of the church, Inside Samantha Ronchi 48 with a brown coat, cut throat 60s hair and red lipstick, like her blood. Hair not disheveled poses plastic like barbie almost like a painting POP Agents walk around the car

27.

INT DAY APARTMENT OF TOMMASO ROCHI

JADE
Mr. ronchi what happened that evening?

TOMMASO RONCHI
I don't think I have anything more to say

GIACOMO POLICE
He was cheating on her and so he killed her?

TOMMASO RONCHI
No, we had a fight and then she went out, I saw

the movements of the card and she went to the hairdresser, but when she didn't come back the next day I called you.

GIACOMO POLICE
Who did the neighbors tell us from, did you

INT NIGHT HOUSE OF TOMMASO RONCHI
Signora marta and tommaso are arguing about pulling things together.

INT HOUSE OF TOMMASO RONCHI CURRENT

two argue often?

GIACOMO POLICE
The priest confessed that the woman was

often covered in bruises

TOMMASO RONCHI
Yes it's true, but it wasn't my fault, I never

And who then? JADE

touched it!

TOMMASO RONCHI
My wife was a free person that's why we often

quarreled but in our way we loved each other, I could never kill her.

28. CUT TO:

INT CHURCH OF THE CITY

Giada is observing the Madonna located near the altar then she hears some noises coming from the priest's room, and goes to look around. He sees a boy, good looking who seems to have his hands in the offerings. He turns to her, with the expression of one who has just been caught in fragrant, but pretends nothing has happened, closes the box and turns to jade.

SAMUEL
Are you looking for someone?

JADE

SAMUEL
The organist you are new I see

JADE
Let's put it this way, I was looking for Father Giulio

SAMUEL
At the moment he is with the children, what do

you want me to ask him?

JADE
If he knew my aunt Samantha Ronchi who

Samuel, we see his hands forgiving a sheet of paper, something falls to the ground and he is agitated, we see drops of sweat coming down from his neck, he takes the guitar and puts it on and almost without looking at it he says to them

Yes she is?

died recently ..

SAMUEL
Of course the lady used to come here often,

she can find him there,
Then he goes out of breath. Giada goes towards the priest.

INT HOTEL ROOM OF JADE

Giada is taking a shower. As soon as she goes out she hears her cell phone ringing. Her mother calls her on her cell phone.

LIDIA CHOOM Have you seen the apartment?

29.

JADE
I forgot, today, I immediately went to work

on the case.

Giada talks to the cell phone and moves to the window, stares at a gentleman with the dog outside the window, who looks at his room, as soon as he sees it he pulls the dog to himself and turns his back and goes away, a car ahead turns on the lights and he goes away.

EXT. DAY PARK
The body of a dead man with burnt eyes is found

JADE
So we have another murder?

GIACOMO POLICE
This has never happened here ... or at least ...

last year we had a similar death, one girl had her eyes burned just like him ... Then we found out she was already Czech ...

JADE
However this gentleman has a familiar air ...

Giada observes the corpse lying on the ground

GIACOMO POLICE
Nilo Petruzzelli 65 years old, retired, lives at

number 56 (pause) on your street.

JADE
The one in my old house?

Yup

GIACOMO POLICE

JADE
Do you still remember it?

GIACOMO POLICE
Of course, Milena remembers it more than I do

30.

JADE
Milena still owes me a middle school dinner.

GIACOMO POLICE
come one evening, what are you doing from

aunt to Luca. He will soon be one year old.

Giada walks down the street in the evening, at a certain point we see a car alongside her, it's Francesco.

FRANCIS
Miss Choom do you need a lift?

INT NIGHT CAR OF FRANCIS

FRANCIS So how did she become a

criminologist?

JADE
It was actually the only degree I could get from

the good sociopath I am

Francesco is surprised and starts laughing. Giada gets serious looking at the window ..

JADE (cont'd)
You know once it was not like that, I was

neither the heiress, nor the criminologist pampered by my mother, but I was only Giada, the bulla. Then one day I saved a child of my age. and I changed my mind

EXT DAY GARDEN OF THE CONDOMINIUM

We see a young jade, who looks fixedly at the boy (Francesco as a young man)

A little boy is eating hastily, at a certain point he suffocates and becomes all blue, jade runs towards him and makes him the maneuver of himlich the boy spits a nut and breathes. the Boy is Francesco as a child.

31.

INT NIGHT CAR OF FRANCIS

JADE What is that face?

FRANCIS
the boy had a red shirt and lived in the red brick

house?

Francesco becomes serious.

JADE
yeah, I always watched what he was doing

because his family, he was a little-- weird. he was about the same age as me. And besides, he was always bruised and I felt sorry for him.

FRANCIS
You don't have to feel sorry for it. That guy may

have made himself a suit of armor, and he gave his all to be where he is now and he's terrified of losing everything, but he likes his job and he wants to do a really good job.

Giada looks at him for a moment and realizes

JADE
Wait .. no.no. It is you! I do not believe it. do

you know the funny thing? I had a crush on you at the time!

FRANCIS

JADE
I must have got the compass wrong, now you're

What?

with the DrHovern right?

No,

FRANCIS

JADE
But how? Isn't he your partner?

FRANCIS No he's my boss

JADE
I didn't want to offend you on the contrary, I

think it's normal, love is beautiful in all its forms

32.

FRANCIS
In fact you didn't offend me, it's just that I'm

straight, the drhover, he's my boss and that's it.

JADE

The car stops in front of the hotel Giada gets out and Francesco talks to him from the door

okey okey

FRANCIS
If tomorrow isn't a problem, the new apartment I

made for you prepare is ready,

JADE
So I check out and come to the office at 11

FRANCIS

Someone is sneaking into the room, he sees the car with jade and francesco coming through the windows, we don't see who he is, we only see his view and then he takes something and goes out. the room is upside down

Giada walks in and we see her face is between surprised and worried, she checks her stuff, she seems to be missing nothing, calls the reception, we see pieces of Hotel people coming in,, hotel people, then some policemen , the bank manager who talks to the policemen, and Giada who sends a message to Francesco, Francesco comes back, He takes Giada's suitcases and loads them into the car, the hotel manager who greets her with the police behind him.,

INT NIGHT CAR OF FRANCIS

Mdp picks up jade from the glass of the car Roads traveled and the arrival at Giada's house

INT GIADA APARTMENT
Francesco turns on the lights and puts the suitcases at the entrance

All right

INT HOTEL ROOM OF JADE

33.

FRANCIS
Well at least tomorrow we will have something

less to do. Maybe there is still some paint smell.

Francesco, look at Giada who is pleasantly surprised

JADE Who furnished it.

FRANCIS

JADE

Then he goes to meet him and hugs him with enthusiasm, and we see that their neighbors are a little embarrassed.

EXT NIGHT HOUSE OF JADE

Someone is following in the footsteps of Giada and Francesco, we see it between one car and another. Looking at the house from the outside

INT NIGHT HOUSE OF JADE

Francesco goes to the fridge, look, I've also put you to drink and Giada takes the bottle of sparkling wine and two glasses

INT NIGHT STAY JADE HOUSE

Giada and Francesco and visibly tipsy drinking while sitting on the sofa while Francesco is on the floor.

The,

Is beautiful!

JADE
Like you, I'm used to doing things alone, My days

are punctuated only by my work, does this make me look like a pathetic person?

FRANCIS
No, I also do it like this the only thing that makes

me feel good is to dance,

JADE
Dance ... DANCE yes I remember your friends

under the bridges, at most I can dance Latin American,

34.

FRANCIS No now you show me

JADE No I'm too ashamed

Francesco pulls her up and they approach to dance, until swinging like drunks they fall one on top of the other on the sofa, laughing. 120 fps camera between her eyes and from his ear to his chest. Giada tries to kiss him, Francesco withdraws.

engaged either Francesco looks at her

JADE (cont'd)
Sorry I shouldn't have, I didn't even ask if you're

FRANCIS
I stop not out of fear, but because we are drunk

and we shouldn't drink like that, there are things that are best done sober.

JADE
But at least tonight stay to sleep with me

FRANCIS

Francesco carries Giada up to the bedroom and sits next to her on top of the blankets, both of them fall asleep like two brothers. Jade the mattian wakes up and sees him there next to her, and smiles at her, gives him a kiss on her cheek. Then the phone rings, she picks it up and goes to answer it, goes into the bathroom, overview of the bathroom, she is amazed, then goes out with the bathrobe after taking a shower and Francesco is no longer on the bed, he hears some noises in the kitchen, Be careful and finds Francesco with his shirt open cooking some eggs, some close up of him shirt, chest abs, neck in detail hair.

JADE
If you want to take a shower, go ahead.

Francesco turns and smiles

All right

FRANCIS
The breakfast service in the room is currently

out of order, but I have prepared some eggs and fruit for her. She wants tea or coffee

35.

JADE
A nice coffee with milk aside, thank you.

Francesco and Giada take a seat at the table.

JADE (cont'd)
During the day this house is even more

beautiful, thank you

FRANCIS
With the budget your mother gave us, it wouldn't make sense to get a bigger but

unfurnished apartment, I got one with all the specs but I had it refurbished and redecorated,

JADE
So you make it difficult for me to choose to

leave once the case is over

FRANCIS
You can always decide to stay, the city has

improved a lot since we were little, except for a few things, the pitch is always there. And the disco is always the same. Even if revisited.

JADE
You see? You have already conquered me.

FRANCIS
Then I scrub your shower for 10 minutes and

then disappear, so you can make friends with the house by yourself and make it yours.

JADE
Ah and you are not my assistant?

Francesco gives a grape to Giada who eats it and goes to the bathroom. He comes back shortly after, Giada is dressed and is putting on her heels, he bends down and puts on his shoes. the camera detail her eyes and his hands. then we see franscesco coming out, she follows him, closes the house and a police car or a (dark blue sedan) comes by to pick her up, it's giacomo

36.

INT DAY AUTO GIACOMO

GIACOMO POLICE Do you live there now?

JADE
And I think I'll be there for quite a while. What do

you say to LUCA will be pleased to have an aunt present?

GIACOMO POLICE
He'll be delighted, so are you having dinner

with us tonight?

JADE Giacomo hands her some papers

Yup ,

GIACOMO POLICE
There are some news from science. apparently

the acid they burned their eyes with is the same brand as last year, and it's sold by several hardware stores in the area, I checked, and nothing came out, buyers buy it

mainly to clean so apart from some housewives and some elderly ladies, there have been no strange customers.

JADE
Did you expect a man in a trench coat and a

GIACOMO POLICE
No but it would help. The man was killed around

JADE

hook to buy it?

five in the morning.

It's the dog?

GIACOMO POLICE
Here's the thing, they killed the dog too. But

instead of burning it
in acid, they drowned it.

JADE They have it

37.

GIACOMO POLICE
I think there are more than one, footprints

have been found both
large from man to cadaver and both smaller and a heel, close to the dog

JADE
A woman drowning a dog in heels, that's

strange, and with Signora gronchi?

GIACOMO POLICE
We found the prints of the same heeled

shoe.

JADE
and therefore it is definitely a crime of

GIACOMO POLICE
From the cut throat? This country is suddenly

INT POLICE OFFICE. Suspects billboard

GIACOMO POLICE

Let's compare the cases, we have the thirty-year-old girl from the previous year's amusement park, burned like Mr. Petruzzelli

JADE

and then we have Mrs. Ronchi slaughtered in front of the church of years ... 48? Really? But Mr. Ronchi is 65 years old, and as far as I know they were married for at least 20 years ..

passion

becoming interesting.

GIACOMO POLICE
Well from what we know, Ms. Ronchi liked to

fly .. Did you find any other clues?

38.

JADE
NO .. the girl from the amusement park I don't

know, I didn't follow the case at that time, she reminded me of it because the newspapers talked about it and I studied the details while I was doing the internship, even if I never saw the girl's face As for me, I only have a connection with Petruzzelli, who used to hang out with my mother when I was little .. and I have met Mrs. RONCHI three times in my whole life .. so boh, I wouldn't say .. But it's strange two made blind and one slaughtered. There were footprints in the girl's case at the carnival.

A colleague of the police arrives and brings him a report, Giada opens it, and reads then takes the fingerprints and compares them

JADE (cont'd)
Footprints for men same size 44, and I would

say same person. we do an appraisal.

Giada goes out for a moment to get some air, some people come in with muddy soles. and two policemen. IClose up on the footprints of the standard shoes. The design is the same - pan-truck on jade.

INT DAY
RONCHI HOUSE
Giada and GIACOMO are looking at Mrs. SAMANTHA RONCHI's personal data

GIACOMO POLICE

While he doesn't share the lady's perfect color match, I have to say he has a system

flawless to order items.

GIACOMO takes some objects from the perfectly labeled boxes. GIADA observes him then notices something under the bed.

JADE but not all apparently.

39.

GIADA takes out a dark blue box, opens it and overturns it on the bed, GIACOMO approaches and they rummage through the stuff.

GIACOMO POLICE

. . . uhm, other boxes and look ... other labels, MARIO, PINO, LUCA, STEF, SAMUEL,

JADE
SAMUEL did you say? It was not the name of

the organist SAMUEL ARTUSI. GIACOMO POLICE

Yes, let's see what's inside ... but what ..
Inside Samuel's box was only a cinema ticket and a stub of a € 5,000 check

JADE What will he have paid for?

GIACOMO POLICE

Maybe he, he gave himself to her for money, and they went to the cinema together? .. I certainly don't know, but above all who goes to see the

Graduated, in cinema, nowadays?

JADE

We can always go and see what cinema it is... I don't know it. But Mr. ARTUSI never told us that he was going out with Mrs. RONCHI.

GIACOMO
Let's go talk to SAMUEL first and then look for the

GIADA takes the blue box, puts the objects back in place and takes it away with her.

cinema?

INT DAY
INTERIOR APARTMENT OF SAMUEL ARTUSI

DISSOLVE TO:

40.

41. GIADA sitting next to the piano looks at GIACOMO who is talking to SAMUEL

GIACOMO
If there's one thing I hate it's people who lie to

me ...

(altered)
So tell me now what kind of relationship did you have with Mrs. Ronchi ..

I, I admit, I used to sleep with her, but only because she helped me with my studies, you know I want to be a doctor, and

GIACOMO That's why you killed her

INT NIGHT
INTERIOR CASA DI Giada

SAMUEL (sobbing)

SAMUEL
No! No .. we had no problems, I saw her that

night, she had to go home, I don't know what happened

JADE gets up and goes towards them, JADE

So you didn't know he had relationships with other people.

SAMUEL
I only knew of another man, one who sometimes

left her with bruises, Mario TRINCI-RINCI, but I've never seen him, so I can't tell you how he's done.

JADE
The coroner spoke of a hickey-like bruise on

SAMANTHA RONCHI's breasts

GIACOMO POLICE
The girl last year also had a similar sign

(amazed) Does he say anything else?

JADE

There is no trace of fluids, although he suffered violence and the toxicological examination revealed no trace

GIACOMO POLICE Not even Cyanide?

JADE Cyanide?

GIACOMO
I smelled bitter almonds at the crime scene. But

obviously I was wrong.

JADE
Maybe it was just her conditioner .. but the

hickey in the same place is really weird. Did we find this guy MArio RINCI?

GIACOMO
GIADA, we found both TRINCI and RINCI - thanks

Facebook - his real surname - the manesco man is
SANTARGENTO, MARIO SANTARGENTO, we
are looking for the address.

JADE
Would you like a drink? I have some white wine

GIACOMO POLICE

Obvious.
Let's take a look at the box, there is a locked box with the name Mario, but who knows where the key is ...

JADE

Maybe at Mrs. Ronchi's house, we will have to go back there ...

DISSOLVE TO:

42.

INT. DAY
OFFICE OF GIACOMO polizzia TESEI MORNING

A woman in a black waistcoat and long bell bottoms with short blonde hair walks into the office accompanied by an agent.

GIACOMO POLICE

Please take a seat. My colleagues have told me that you know something about SAMANTHA RONCHI's death. Tell me.

CLEAR
Yeah, maybe I know who killed her, a man told

me he paid her to have sex with him, but where they got together she didn't come, and he took it out on me.

The woman nervously takes off her clothes and shows the policeman several bruises all over her body

GIACOMO And do you know his name?

CLEAR
Forgive me but I can't tell you, He introduced

himself as Stef, he paid me in advance and it was enough for me
this .. only now I'm afraid.

GIACOMO
Thank you. Please contact the agent and we

CLEAR Don't believe me?

will issue a report.

GIACOMO
Of course I believe you, but I have to investigate

two murder cases and I don't have much time, anyway thanks we will look for this STEF .. even if it could be a fake name, I will send you a scientific designer to draw an identikit.

CLEAR
I understand, I'll leave you my number

anyway.

43.

The woman gets up and throws a lewd look at GIACOMO and goes quickly to the agent at the door. Jade enters the room watching the prostitute leave.

MARIA Should I warn Milena?

GIACOMO
Nice .. Did you find the key to Mrs. Ronchi's

house?

JADE
Sure, and I already took her to my house. I

finished my shift, you?

GIACOMO I'll take you home

Both leave the scene

EXT HOUSE OF JADE

Francesco is outside Giada's house with some agents, Giada gets off on the fly and asks.

FRANCIS
Looks like the intruder alarm went off, and since

they still have my number they called me. I did a quick check there is no one and I do not seem to miss anything.

GIACOMO POLICE
First at the hotel and then here, who can be

FRANCIS
actually it starts to get disturbing ...

Franscesco, sees that Giacomo and Giada are close enough, but takes a closer look at Giacomo,

INT AUTO FRANCESCO

Franscesco does things, at first he laughs, a hysterical laugh, then he is thoughtful, then a car rings outside and he goes back to the ward. arrives home gets out of the car, shot from outside, enters, takes a bag with some stuff, goes to the car and then goes back, then goes back to the car and comes back. Cheerful music. Fun.

mad at you? .

44.

INT EVENING HOUSE GIADA
Francesco has a big bag, he is at the entrance and puts it down on the ground.

FRANCIS I'll stay here tonight

JADE
You don't have to worry, Look nothing is

missing, but if you want to make me breakfast again I appreciate it

FRANCIS
So now I'm your little slave? ..

JADE

But it's not true (laughing)

FRANCIS

But it's the only solution I've thought of to keep you safe Can I sleep in your bed?

JADE
Okay ... but you should know that there is

also a guest bedroom perfectly furnished ... by you

INT HOUSE OF JADE
A FEW HOURS PASS, (fast-motion) WE SEE FRANCIS PUTTING THE STUFF IN PLACE, THEY SPEAKING, WINE, DINING, LAUGHING.

THE MACHINE SHOWS THEM ASLEEP AND THE 3.45 AM ALARM WAKE UP

A window that opens, some footsteps, a glove, a photo of GIADA the glove takes it FRANCESCO goes out and goes towards the bathroom, you can clearly hear noises from the street, FRANCESCO goes out, turns off the light and steps on something wet on the ground, exclaims the his disappointment, turns on the light and sees against the light,

of wet shoe prints. He turns on all the lights and takes the baseball bat without being seen. JADE wakes up.

45.

FRANCIS

Stay in bed, I'm just going to get one thing

JADE

(completely sleepy)

Hey Are you okay?

Yes, yes, sleep. FRANCIS

FRANCESCO walks through the house following the footprints he finds there

open window, closes it, and looks everywhere, also looks

absent-mindedly where a photo has disappeared. But he doesn't realize anything.

INT DAY MORNING HOUSE OF JADE

GIADA burns herself with the hot coffee mug that she places on the table, takes her bag and rummages inside until she finds an old key. She takes it if she turns it over in her hands and asks FRANCIS to accompany her to the post office

EXT DAY PUBLIC MAIL BOXES

GIADA opens a letterbox and her mother. There are some old letters, one of them bears one
detailed and troubled story with Nilo Petruzzelli. There are also some references in a diary to a certain Ivano, but he is almost never mentioned. So jade doesn't notice him.

JADE
Here I remembered this fact!

FRANCIS

Did your mother have a lover? (reading some

letters) JADE

(BLACKBERRIES)

46.

JADE (cont'd)
And that the man she was cheating on my

father with was the very man they killed these days.

FRANCIS

This just means that you and the killer may be connected, and that maybe the same man or woman comes to visit you at night.

JADE

I do not know. And with Mrs. Samantha Ronchi? I don't think it has anything to do with it.

FRANCIS

Perhaps we are faced with two very distinct killers, one who burns his victims with acid, and the other who rips their throats.

GIADA is strangely silent, FRANCESCO looks at her several times curiously.

FRANCIS (cont'd) Hey what's going on?

JADE

Nothing, I was thinking of SAMANTHA RONCHI, and in general of women who cheat on their husbands.

FRANCIS Sometimes happens

JADE Happens?

FRANCIS

If you find someone you like, just give it a try and don't care if he's married or not?

47.

JADE

What sense does it make? I mean getting married? Put yourself in a position to stay with a person forever if then, the first one you like, you change your mind as if you were changing jacket.

FRANCIS

You have such an ancient idea about love.

JADE
Giving me a big stick doesn't help.

FRANCIS
Look, you too have enormous prejudices, you

remember how you behaved with my friend Amid, you avoided him wherever you were or if you were a little racist.

JADE
Oh no, just because as a child I had some

harassment and they wanted to buy me black people, from there I have always been reluctant to that type of person.

FRANCIS
Tell me who did it and I'll go get it.

FRANCESCO (VO)
I often remember that the environment in which I

live is rough, cheap and even if the Italian tries to bury you constantly, we always try to get us out of the mud that our farming community creates. We don't even have the structures to develop ourselves, all we are good at is because we train alone, without help, without state .. quite the opposite.

INT DAY

Filming of various Olympics, of Italy and of young boys who are not encouraged enough.

48.

INT DAY COUNTRY SHOOTING AREAS

We see slap shots, of Giada and Giacomo looking at paperwork, analyzing evidence, Then a quick drone over Hover's office, Francesco, checking the drawings of the apartments.

FRANCESCO (VO)
The weeks passed quickly Giada was busy looking

for the killer, I was behind finishing the work with dr hover.

INT NIGHT DISCO
Francesco and Gaia dance, someone watches them. Pino arrives and takes Gaia aside,

PINE TREE
It's selfish I know, but I want you to come back

and be with me.

JADE
You and I have never been together and we will

INT DAY POLICE OFFICE

Giacomo is seated at a table and is asking questions to a boy in tears, the police lights bounce off the gray wall, the sound of cars echoing in the air.

The breathing continues laboriously.

NEVER get together.

GIACOMO POLICE
I have to ask you a few things. How long have

you been dating Signora Ronchi

different faces of different ages follow one after the other Colors remain gray

The answer is more or less the same, MARIO, PAOLO, STEF, SAMUEL ... neither luca nor PINO can be found

MARIO
No, I hadn't dated her for at least four

months.

49.

You continue to hear the sound of breathing with each flash
A bloody hand slips on the glass, flashes of cameras and several clicks

GIACOMO POLICE
Have you noticed anything that can help us?

STEF
Samantha wanted a rich husband at all costs,

from whom she took the money to support herself and to keep the ranks of lovers

INT DAY HOTEL ROOMS

Samanta Ronchi drinking in the hotel, having fun with everyone MARIO, PAOLO, STEF, SAMUEL ... with different clothes. Let's slap back on

INT POLICE OFFICE

GIACOMO POLICE And how did you meet?

PAUL
I'd like to speak to my attorney.

INT OFFICE OF DR HOVER

FADE IN:

CUT TO:

Two men are talking, Arturo DR HOVER and an elegant gentleman named MAtteo are on their way to lunch. A dark sedan follows them. They seem very in tune.

INT DAY LUXURY RESTAURANT Men sitting at the table for lunch.

DR HOVER
Is the project of the new high-strength concrete

with microplastics ready?

50.

MATTEO
We will stabilize it shortly, it will be

incredible

DR HOVER
In this way we will partially solve the problem of

plastics and build earthquake-resistant houses

MATTEO
I didn't think you were interested in the

INT NIGHT HOTEL ROOM

Two lovers, are dressing up, Dr Hover, and Jacob, a guy in his 40's in a sleek model style.

environment

JACOB
I missed you this month, I couldn't have come

earlier, Sofia took the children to the beach and we stayed with them in this ultra chic Campus

DR HOVER
You know, I do this only because you are married

and have children .. I have no problems, but always seeing us locked in this room .. I don't know where this thing will lead us ... this relationship ... but you know it I do for you ..

Jacob approaches and hugs him

EXT NIGHT ROAD
A man in black is tampering with a vehicle

INT DAY AVENUES
Giada talks to Claudia, a friend of hers, a classy girl

CUT TO:

51.

classic girl with green eyes and long dark hair. they are having a drink in a bar and then walking down the street.

CLAUDIA
Jack wants you to go out with him

JADE
I do not even think about that

Caludia begins to jump like crazy

CLAUDIA
you said the same thing about Fabio last week

Bambola you have to take back the command

JADE
For the armed forces? As if I ever had it and then

if I don't want it I don't want it.

CLAUDIA
Have you met someone else that's who he is

JADE
Yes no, boh, for now it's just the furniture of my

apartment. And I do not know. I don't know how to explain it,

CLAUDIA
I think you explained it very well, go on, tell me

I'm here.

JADE
I don't know, he kissed me like that out of

nowhere, a kiss like that, but it was like I kissed my brother..and I have no brothers.?

CLAUDIA
Ahhh my friend fell in love. IN LOVE, a love

with a capital A. Stop it.

JADE

52.

INT HOUSE OF SIGN CHOOM

Ms. choom is having tea on the sofa, the waitress brings him some cookies on the cake stand,

MADAME CHOOM

Where are you?

JADE I'm in the apartment

MADAME CHOOM
And that Francesco? You know you can't take

JADE Because?

it home

MADAME CHOOM
We did some research, she had a non-Cradite

family, her mother is a woman of easy virtue and her father is dead, so it's not for us.

JADE For you you will mean

MADAME CHOOM
I said break the relationship or I'll have your

JADE
Are we so at the end of the line?

MADAME CHOOM
I'll send for you this week to make a blind

date

JADE
I have no say in this story that would be my life

right?

MADAME CHOOM
no, take the case back and come back

INT OFFICE OF DR HOVER

Giada and Giacomo are at the dRhover office, they are sitting with their backs to it and we see their profiles in the shade.

father step in.

53.

DR HOVER
Mrs. Ronchi had some apartments but tell

me the reason for your visit

GIACOMO POLICE
She results in the knowledge of as many as 4 of

Mr. Ronchi's five sexual partners, as is possible.

DR HOVER
I have ... let's say various tastes, but I don't

think they're yours
worry. As far as professional relationships are concerned, perhaps this can help you

The drhover takes out a photo of very young Mrs. Samantha Ronchi. With a 10- year-old by my side

DR HOVER (cont'd)
If you find the baby, you may be able to really understand how things went.

Francesco listens from the office then Giada goes out and greets Francesco, his face drawn.

EXT OFFICE OF DR HOVER RAIN Francesco runs out, and stops Giada,

FRANCIS Tell me what's going on?

JADE
My mother doesn't want us to go out

FRANCIS Why did we go out together?

JADE
touch is but I have to stop this thing ...

together

FRANCIS
So you do it right? And all the beautiful phrase

you said to me that day where did it go?

54.

JADE
It ended when he said he was going to call my

father I see

FRANCIS

JADE
You know, I father? The one who would have sold

me to an Arab emir or to any wealthy person to help him in business, you know? Him. He'll break you.

Giada has tears in her eyes, strong emotion takes over.

She runs away while Giacomo waits for her in the car and the rain beats on the umbrellas.

Dr hover reaches him, gives him a copy of the photo

DRHOVER
Maybe you will be better able than them to find

the baby, and you may have a chance with her. Although

FRANCIS Even if there is no hope

INT NIGHT APARTMENT OF FRANCIS

Francesco drives home, takes a bottle of whiskey and sits on the sofa. He takes out the photo and looks at it. He fixes it to a wall. Francesco plays something on the piano, Francesco writes in a diary, Francesco reads a book. Francesco takes a shower. the clock ticks, we see it suffused, Francesco turns in bed, we review the photo hanging. The yellow of the wall is similar to the yellow of the boy's sweater, with his eyes open on the bed. the fluorescent neon lights of the front sign bounce off the room. Tracking of the room forward on the face of Francesco

INT NIGHT DISCO

Francesco is having a drink at the bar, some girls go around him, he dodges them and slips away, goes out and goes into the parking lot and sees Pino, who is talking to other guys. He stares at him for seconds,

55.

INT NIGHT OFFICE OF DR HOVER

Francesco in the dark and with his cell phone flashlight, looks for Mrs. Ronchi's date of birth. he sees that Mrs. Ronchi was 48, so she was 20 years younger than Mr. Ronchi with whom she had two children aged 10 and 8, and that her son would now have been 20 years old.

Then I'll stay Piano music is heard.

DR HOVER

EXT DAY CITY

FRANCESCO (VO)
Maybe I could have been wrong but Pino was

very similar to the kid in the photo but why would he have to kill his mother or the other guy?

EXT NIGHT HOUSE OF JADE

Francesco, leave a note in Giada's mailbox, saying to find PINO, who was the child in the photo.

INT DAY UFF DRHOVER
Francesco systematizes practices on the table, the drHOVER

Where is Giada? DR HOVER

FRANCIS Now it's never all over

GIACOMO POLICE Drink your coffee, it's getting cold.

JADE
Are you going out this afternoon?

56. CUT TO:

PM shot, we start with Giacomo with a box of biscuits, and he leaves it on Giada's table, then we cut up on her cup and she sips her coffee, then we move to follow the chair

GIACOMO POLICE Taking a cookie) No, I have a lot of

relationships to finish, what did you think you were doing?

JADE
I wanted to find a friend of mine, and maybe I

have an idea how to find our killer.

INT NIGHT HALLWAY

Pm without a word Giada walks down the corridor with the lights out, to the back door, talks to someone on the headset.

JADE
I leave the door to the garden open, and

I'll call you if something happens, don't take too long okay?

The camera follows her to the end of the hall, where in the dark she sits on the sofa and waits

EXT NIGHT HOUSE OF JADE

We see someone dressed in black who slowly opens the door, it is dark inside. close up on the feet

The camera is on the outside, we see the door close

INT NIGHT ENTRY JADE HOUSE

we are next to the figure in black, and we see that it touches the walls, and begins to examine the house, and some bottles

INT CORRIDOR NIGHT

Middle floor, the black figure seems impatient, the camera moves closer and closer to the figure.

57.

We detach on the face of Jade who listens terrified to the sounds of footsteps, we see her facial expression, and looks above her., The black figure passes her without seeing her.

INT NIGHT DINING ROOM

Pm the figure takes a syringe and opens the fridge, takes the milk carton and squeezes the whole syringe into it. He closes the fridge, and Giada turns on the lights. He is far from the silhouette, but he is locked away in the kitchen.

EXT NIGHT HOUSE OF JADE

we see many cars arriving with bright headlights, close up u of several people entering the house, all police officers

They take the figure, throw it to the ground. It's Marta. Francesco's mother.

INT NIGHT POLICE STATION

GIACOMO POLICE Tell me why you killed them

MARTA but what is it about?

GIACOMO POLICE Mrs. Ronchi and Mr. Nilo

MARTA
You're joking right.? I just wanted to put some

laxative in that little bitch's milk over there, Hey how dare you go out with my son ?!

Signora marta is standing outside looking at Giada And

GIACOMO POLICE
So she has nothing to do with any of the

deaths?
No. How should I tell you

MARTA

58.

You see the footsteps of another agent, he passes him a folder, with some photos and exams,

GIACOMO POLICE
Apparently in the hours of the murders, his cell

phone hooked up areas outside the country, and there is only a mild laxative in the milk. Can go

Marta goes out and goes to Francesco, without looking at Giada.

MARTA
Let's go home. I need to talk to you

FRANCIS
You shouldn't apologize to Giada

MARTA Yes, I'm so sorry

He turns to jade without looking at her, then takes Francesco's jacket and drags it away

INT HOUSE OF MARTA OUTSKIRTS

The house is elegant, but old, dusty, the camera rotates towards the stairs, Marta goes up and comes back with a box.

MARTA

Francesco opens the box, finds medical reports, two births at 7 years of age from each other. first a girl and then a boy. the child was registered as Giada choom, the child as Pino Petruzzelli, then there were letters from Mrs. Ronchi and Mrs. Choom. Marta serves herself a drink, the ice clinks in the glass. close up on marta's legs swinging crossed. Shoes with a 5 cm heel (barbie style) are slightly dirty at the edges. he takes his cigarette and puts it out by squeezing it into the ashtray, a light cuts his eyes. When PP starts talking then the machine moves to his lips and his eyes

Read

MARTA (cont'd)
Your father, that filthy one, was a serial traitor,

he had two children, while he was married to me, the first to the multimillion dollar Ms. Choom, Jade, is your Step Sister ..

(BLACKBERRIES)

59.

MARTA (cont'd)
and then with the prostitute of the neighborhood

Mrs. Samantha Gronchi whose throat they have cut in recent days, with her the last one, a certain Pino. This is the real Your father. As soon as you were born I discovered the truth and I hoped that you would die, to spare you this rotten blood that you carry with you.

EXT NIGHT AVENUES

Francesco walks thoughtfully along the avenues, we make a wide floor, then shirt shoulder detail that dangles heavily. Close up on the lips, run a finger on the lips. He sits down and stares at the moon. Full. it starts snowing.

INT DAY CAFETERIA

Giada is wearing an elegant suit and is tidying up some documents, while she is making a diagram .. Enter Francesco. We see the chambermaid arguing with the boss about schedules, Francesco looks at them for a moment and then sits down in front of Giada, gives him the papers his mother had

FRANCIS
Maybe this helps with the investigation ..

Jade reads whitens, drinks

JADE
Ivano, your father? Am I your sister? And Pino

also ..

Francesco, gets up and goes away, we see her standing still but in time loops go via Francesco, go back to the room she on the phone, get pine, yell and leave. arriving Mrs. choom begins to cry, Giada leaves and we follow her with the camera.

INT POLICE OFFICE

Carellata knows upside down the blackboard with the suspects. Giacomo observes it.

Any new data? GIACOMO POLICE

60.

JADE
Did you know Mrs. Samantha ronchi?

Close up on Giacomo's eyes twitch. But Giada is from behind and does not see him.

GIACOMO POLICE And who did not know her,

Giada takes the clothes and goes home

INT DAY HOUSE OF JADE

Giada is in a tank top and has all the necessary evidence on the table, opens all the boxes, looks at everything.

He puts pine in the row of children, then finds Luca's little girl, it looks new, very new, opens it, there is the date August 3, 2021 Giada fixes the calendar,

JADE It's been nearly a year

FLASH of Giacomo who says, his son is almost a year old, FLASH of the sole imprints
Giada picks up the phone and stops.
On the door is MILENA close up on the jade bottom mdp heels

MILENA So how are you?

JADE
Hi, it's a lot how did you get in?

MILENA
You always leave some doors open

JADE
I'm going to put something on and come back

MILENA
It doesn't matter, I see you got there

JADE
But I don't understand why

61.

MILENA

Giacomo is fucking Mrs. Ronchi, in a motel on sight, Milena sees them, and starts crying in the car. He sees a girl who also stares at the motel (the rom)

Milena takes a stick, and hits her.

Giacomo sees her, runs out, we see in time loops, from Signora Ronchi's view, Giacomo stops milena, checks the Rom, then enters takes a bottle of acid, pours it on the girl's eyes, -we see everything with music creepy of the motel and through the glass while it rains of the window.

EXT HIGHWAY

Really?

MILENA
that evening we made two mistakes, giacomo me

if pregnant and I killed the rom. Samantha had seen everything and she was blackmailing us, forcing Giacomo to stay with her, until the belly did not become clearly visible at which point it disappeared for a few months.

EXT DAY GARDEN
Samantha ronchi, giving the baby to milena.

MILENA
He returned with luca. he gave it to me

Milena has a macabre laugh on her face,

JADE
So to get rid of her you killed her

Yup

MILENA

JADE
And Giacomo has covered everything

62.

MILENA
Yes, but then they sent a criminologist to dig,

when I heard it was you, I was so happy, you would never understand, but instead like a hardworking little ant you collected everything

Milena lets her arm free behind her and the pin sparkles in her hands.

JADE
I could always say that I have not found

any evidence
I don't think you are capable of lying

MILENA

JADE
But why did you kill Mr. Petruzzelli?

MILENA
He always carried the dog around at the wrong

times and saw Giacomo enter your house to look for this ..

Milena takes out the photo of Signora Choom and her husband, behind them we see Giacomo and Signora Ronchi kissing.

MILENA (cont'd) Sooner or later you would have seen it.

JADE
think of luca, he will be left without parents

MILENA
Young heiress found killed by the serial killer of

the area, the traces of the unsolved case are lost. Do you know how many cases are like that in Italy?

A fleeting shadow passes behind Milena, it is Francesco who with a short blow on the head collapses the woman.

FRANCIS
I was worried, you recorded everything.

JADE

Yup.

63.

EXT POLICE OFFICE PRESS CONFERENCE
The marshal speaks in front of the audience, of journalists.

MARESCIALLO
The young Criminologist Jade Choom wisely

solved the case thanks to the help of the citizen Francesco Toscanacci. The homicide cases were all linked together. and included a police officer and his wife. Their one-year-old son has been placed in social services where he will be placed in a family more suited to raising a child.

The crowd presses him the camera tackles the crowd in reverse and goes out we see Mrs. Choom shaking hands with Francesco and greets him, Giada also hugs him, then gets into the car.

EXT HOUSE OF JADE
We see a moving van on the For Sale sign.

INT EVENING OFFICE

Francesco is thoughtful but happy, the drHover observes him from the door jamb.

DR HOVER
How about we go to dinner together,

Francesco accepts, without thinking, he thinks it's just a friendly gesture

INT NIGHT CAR DR HOVER

The Drhover drives the car and watches Francesco watching the city lights from the window.

DRHOVER

It's the first time you've agreed to come with me to celebrate.

Francesco observes but does not speak

64.

FRANCIS
How come you never settled down

DRHOVER
Because I've never found the right person. We all

want what we can't have, and sometimes we do things to get them, and it is how far we go that qualifies us as good or bad people.

Dr. Hover plays nice to him, takes him to the car, and offers him an expensive dinner

INT NIGHT RESTAURANT

Dr. Hover is clearly trying. At first it looks like a classic business dinner, they talk about work relationships then the atmosphere changes

DR HOVER
I would have liked you to choose me as a

sponsor, for your future, you would have taken my reins

FRANCIS
Isn't it enough that I'm just a perfect

employee?

DR HOVER
No. You know I wish you were my lover. Because

of how nice you are to me, I understand that you also have feelings for me

FRANCIS
Respect, you are older than me and made

yourself, I have a deep respect. But I don't feel love, if that's what you're asking, I have other tastes

DR HOVER
Am I not enough for you? You should try to see

if you like it ..

65.

FRANCIS
Let's be honest you go? No, I'm not Gay. My

sexual orientation shouldn't have anything to do with my job. Let me explain better, after all, she spent a lot on this private dinner. I have my faults and merits, thank you for your kind words about mine

professionalism ... but I am tired of your generation, which wants to talk about the future of young people, you who are the most corrupt and turncoats of all generations. the reins? Let's be serious .. then he would have something to blackmail me with and have me in his grasp. Keep telling me I won't arrive without your help. Because? What are you afraid of? Is he jealous of what? Why does he take pleasure in destroying people?

Francesco approaches him and touches him, in the last sentence, before he said the whole sentence from behind, his fists clench

FRANCIS (cont'd) Forget about me

But I love you.. DR HOVER

The drHover embraces him, Francesco detaches himself and stops him with one hand and then leaves.

EXT NIGHT CITY

Francesco travels by car, poignant music (losing you by WONHO) on the radio. Arrive at the disco he has pants tight blacks blacks and a white leather jersey. and a jacket of

FRANCESCO (VO)
I am tired of being told that I am not capable,

that I am not
enough, that I have to bend to the dark side to have a normal life. When will it be my turn?

66.

We see his hands, his neck while giving himself the perfume, the detail of his eyes and lips and hair, he drinks several glasses, then he climbs on the cube and dances to music as he did with his friends, he is free without chains, alcohol begins to give his head begins to dangle, he sits on the edge of the bars, he feels observed, in the crowd he sees a blonde girl, who dances, observes her for some time, then gets up, passes by, she looks at him and before once then she turns several times to look at it.

ANNA Are you Francesco MAnni?

FRANCIS Yes and you ?

ANNA
Anna Mantovani, we are neighbors. How are you?

FRANCIS
"like autumn on the trees, the leaves"

ANNA
ok good but not very good,

Anna is a beautiful girl, with narrow blue eyes, she pulls him to herself before someone spills the drink on him, then shuns shyly. Francesco stops her thanks to the alcohol in her veins which makes him verbose

FRANCIS
Why were you crying a few days ago?

ANNA What is stalking me?

In a moment of clarity, Francesco apologizes embarrassed and starts to leave, we see her hand blocking him.

EXT MACHINE OF FRANCESCO PIAZZALE DISCOTECA

ANNA
My boyfriend broke up with me after cheating

on me with a friend of mine. The beauty is that he thinks it's my fault

FRANCIS How is this your fault?

67.

ANNA
According to him, I introduced them to them

What an asshole FRANCIS

Anna laughs, we see 120 fps the second of anna's smile. And Francesco's point of view, Then Francesco takes her head with his hands and gives her a chaste kiss. then abruptly walks away. and vomits the soul. When she turns around, Anna is gone.

Look a little left and right then get in the car and fall asleep

EXT ALBA DISCO PIAZZALE

The black parking attendant knocks him on the glass, and Francesco recovers, gets up, touches his head and starts the car, takes a sip of water and leaves.

INT HOUSE OF FRANCIS,

His mother is not there- Francesco is motionless in the shower. We see the scar on the wrist and Francesco staring at it., Then we see it dry putting the watch back to cover the cut

DISSOLVE TO: FLASHBACK

INT NIGHT FRANCIS'S ROOM

Years earlier, Ivanov has just died, Marta enters Francesco's room drags him by the hair, Francesco no longer rebels is full of bruises, ties him with a rope in the wardrobe, threatens him with a knife with one hand

MARTA
You were supposed to die, not him

Francesco tries to parry the blow of the knife, he wounds it, she pushes him into the wardrobe and closes it,

68.

Francesco feels the blood dripping all over his arm and creates a dark pool at his feet, tears a piece of shirt and wraps it tightly around the wound, His eyes are empty. The blood stops shedding - one of Mommy's many lovers, he casually released it a few days later, called her crazy, while Francesco saw everything foggy around him, he saw only blue and red lights that shone along the walls of the box and then dark.

INT DAY OFFICE OF DR HOVER

Francesco sees mdp from the top of the vision of francesco looking at the mdp, the DR hover with a new employee, the dr hover takes liberties and the boy does not complain. Find a dismissal email on your pc.

FRANCESCO (VO)
I didn't have enough savings for this, but I made

a choice that changed my life.

INT NIGHT RAVE GARAGE

Francesco is together with 5 other guys dressed in jacket and tie dancing on a completely red stage

A rap singer sings in front of them. with green lasers they pass through them.

Francesco divides and helps the boys with the clothes, then goes out, takes the car and stops with the car near the Arno bridge. It remains there.

FRANCESCO (VO)
I could have been wrong or maybe not, but

being a dad to everyone could be a gift.

INT DAY OFFICE OF FRANCIS

Francesco has opened a male modeling agency. There are a lot of guys taking pictures, and the secretaries sign contracts, there are videos on the screen, at one point Francesco hears a speech from a boy

LORENZO
I would rather not work for that director.

69.

SABRINA GIRL AT THE DESK Does it have a particular reason?

LORENZO The boy dances his leg heavily

FRANCIS
Can you come Lorenzo please.

Lorenzo goes to Francesco's office and closes the door

LORENZO
Director would you like to tell me something?

I do not like,

FRANCIS
Actually I would like to know more why you

avoid working with director Demodeo

LORENZO
And that, I have no problem, he did nothing but,

I don't feel very comfortable ...

FRANCIS Did he touch you?

LORENZO

How not? No

FRANCIS
I don't care about your sexual orientation, only

you can decide who to go with and what to do, but if he has done something against your will I would like you to tell me

He hugged me LORENZO

FRANCIS
Were you alone with him, were you in a

witnessless situation?

70.

INT NIGHT BAR LOUGE

Demodeo and Lorenzo talk about models, they have some photos of Lorenzo and Demodeo, he compliments him, Then he throws something in Lorenzo's glass so that he doesn't notice.

INT DAY OFFICE OF FRANCIS

LORENZO
I had an audition with him with some people,

then he called me back for a recall, but this time he was alone and the place was a bar, and he made me drink, it's strange I can handle alcohol well but after a drink I feeling dizzy, he accompanied me to his car, on the way I threw up, and so I left ... but I remember his grip and the sensation of his voice on the neck ...

FRANCIS
Okay, you won't work with him. Thank

you.

EXT NIGHT MACHINE OF FRANCIS

Francesco, is watching the director's movements. on iInstagram, he posted a photo of a bar. the bar louge

DISSOLVE TO: FLASHBACK

INT NIGHT HOUSE OF FRANCIS

Fifteen-year-old Francesco sleeps in his bed, Martha snores in the opposite room Francesco feels a weight settle on the bed. An unfamiliar hand caresses him, Then he pulls away the covers, wakes up, sees a man in front of him masturbating with a contorted face, screams.

BACK TO:

71.

His mother arrives, drags the man away then looks at Francesco with an expression between disgust and horror. closes the door. And he doesn't talk to him.

INT EXT DAY BAR

Marta is accompanied by a man, she is fine, she seems happy, she is pregnant. hands Francesco a business card

FRANCESCO (VO)
That silence as if it had blamed me for the fact

has been an unmanageable pain all these years. as soon as I was eighteen I left, so as not to come back, I saw her again one day the following year.

MARTA
this person can help you find a job. Without

reference and without titles, she goes to him.

INT AUTO FRANCESCO NIGHT 2021

Francesco sees the director DeModeo, who drags a boy in his car, follows him to a pitch, when he sees that the director tries to undress the unconscious boy, at which point he goes out and intervenes.

FRANCIS
May I ask you what do you think you are

DEMODEO
Oh, he got sick and I was making him

doing?

comfortable.

FRANCIS
So maybe it would have been better to take him

to the emergency room? Isn't he one of those maniacs who uses the rape drug to make physical contact? It seems to me that you are also an important person.

DEMODEO
I, yes, that is no, .. I cannot go to the

emergency room as long as I want to take care of it
she'll take care of it, right, goodbye

72.

Demodeus, takes the boy's body and drags him out of the car, and scrapes at an impressive speed

FRANCESCO (VO)
Pieces of meat where they can pour their

frustrations, that's what we are. I want to change this way of thinking.

the ambulance arrives and with it the police, Francesco takes the dashcam he mounted on the car and delivers the film to the police, leaves the ticket in the boy's pocket. And he goes away.

INT DAY OFFICE OF FRANCIS Dr hover enters and visits him

DR HOVER
I see you've built an empire, and you hang out

with more men than I do

FRANCIS
not the way you mean, I called you for

information, I remember director Demodeo was a regular at the studio

DR HOVER
I admit, I went out with him for a while, why are

FRANCIS
have you terminated relations with him?

DR HOVER
Yes, recently, he called me yesterday but I was

you jealous?

in a meeting

FRANCIS
If he calls you back, don't answer soon, he'll get

involved in an investigation, and since you've been a good boss anyway, I don't want you to get into trouble.

DR HOVER Are you protecting me now?

Enter the room Sabrina, Sir, the police sergeant is there to ask you additional questions.

73.

FRANCIS
Have him sit in the meeting room. (Then to Dr

Hover) Don't answer him and everything will be fine. And if they asked you for something, you didn't know anything.

Francesco leaves the room, Dr. Hover stays and then leaves

INT FRANCESCO'S OFFICE MEETING ROOM
Francesco greets the marshal and sits down to talk to him

MARESCIALLO There are a lot of guys here

Francesco smiles politely.
Here is another who thinks he knows everything

FRANCESCO (VO)

FRANCIS
We work with models for magazines and for the

cinema it is quite normal ... tell me how I can help you

MARESCIALLO
Apparently the boy was drugged with GHB,

or MDMA as she assumed, how did you know?

I knew it
And why did he follow that car

FRANCIS

MARESCIALLO

74.

FRANCIS
Listen Marshal, I could say that a protege of

mine found himself in a similar situation last week, and since I'm worried I wanted to follow the man to see if he had behaved in the same way with another boy, and so it was. , or I could tell her that I happened to be there by chance, or saw a strange attitude and I didn't have my cabbages and followed them, which version do you prefer?

MARESCIALLO
We found your note in the victim's pocket

FRANCIS
As I showed the paramedic, in case no one had

taken care of him, or in an emergency they could contact me. By the way, how are you?

MARESCIALLO
The boy, after gastric lavage, had a heart attack,

and is now in intensive care.

FRANCIS
You looked at the camera from the car

I gave you

MARESCIALLO
Yes, but we can't trace the man in gray, you

know who he is, he spoke to us, what did you say?

FRANCIS
I stopped him asking him what he wanted to do,

because it seemed to me that the boy was sensa sensa.

MARESCIALLO
Okay, thank you for your community service then.

It is rare to find a boy so young with her stability her father must be proud of her. until we meet again

75.

Francesco is sitting at his desk and takes out of the drawer the photo of his father next to the truck with the keys and his mother. He is thoughtful.

INT HOUSE OF FRANCIS

She goes home, changes and puts on her clothes to go to the disco, a gray workwear suit open in front of a studded belt with two silver necklaces and leaves

EXT DISCO

There are several people greets people then sees him in the crowd hard to recognize him, Marco the bully who persecuted him has gone bald, he is still with the usual grown up bullies, the crowd divides them, seems changed, he is on the sidelines smoking a cigarette, girls don't even look at him. he goes to the bar and smells a familiar scent, turns and finds himself just behind Anna, there is a moment of glance between the two, then Annasi disappears into the crowd, when the bartender asks him what he wants to drink.

FRANCIS Will I take it after okey?

And he runs after him, mdp to slap him that stops Anna in the middle of the track.

FRANCIS (cont'd) Why are you running away from me?

ANNA No it's just that ...

Here comes a boy, one of Marco's bullies,

BEPPE Does this guy bother you?

ANNA
No it's Francesco, he's a friend of mine

Beppe takes Anna's face in a protective way and pulls her to himself

BEPPE
Because if it bothers you I break the beautiful

face he has, you are mine remember it.

76.

ANNA
Leave me, I belong to nobody, I already told you

we are not together anymore

BEPPE
We talk about it in the car, (turning to Francesco)

in short, whatever you want

FRANCIS
(to Anna) is this the asshole who cheated on you

with your friend? Don't interfere ANNA

FRANCIS

BEPPE
Hey who did you say asshole?

Beppe tries to hit him from behind but Francesco gets out of his way, and uses his own strength to pull him to the ground

FRANCIS

The other guys arrive too, Francesco takes Anna and disappears into the nightclubs

FRANCIS (cont'd) You came back with that

ANNA
no, so you're not drunk tonight?

FRANCIS
I only drink to get rid of my nerves I'm not an

Then out of the corner of his eye he sees Beppe looking for them in the disco, He takes Anna and takes her under the DJ counter, we have a 120fps on Anna looking at Francesco, her mouth on her neck.

CUT TO:

OK Bye,

Oh you fell.

alcoholic,

77.

INT NIGHT CAR OF FRANCIS

Francesco takes Anna home and opens the door for him, she leans over and gives him a fleeting kiss, they look at each other for a few seconds and then kisses him again, he remains to look at her perplexed, then takes his head in his hands and kisses her. turn with more intensity.

A scream down the street interrupts the two.

Marta runs down the street bleeding. Francesco gets out of the car and it starts raining, we see Marta falling terrified to the ground, and a man who tries to hit her with a club, Francesco throws himself on him and pushes him away.

Marta looks at him between a thank you and you're doing a lot of surprise. Anna is calling the police on the phone

MARIO
It's just a damn, why are you defending

her? Who are you?

FRANCIS
She's my mom and I know she's an apocalyptic

bitch, believe me I know better than anyone else

MARIO
That Thing, he beat our daughter

The police car arrives and we see Marta in handcuffs and the little girl on Mario's neck

FRANCIS
You'll have to take care of her, and if one day

she wants to meet her stepbrother I'll be there.

FRANCESCO (VO)
With her a chapter of my life has ended but

perhaps this anger that I feel inside, that I try to

emerging, for all the past evil, will not cease overnight.

Anna and Francesco walk back to the car

ANNA
This is what you experienced, your mom. . ?

78.

FRANCIS
Let's say she wasn't exactly a regular mom,

but ... I don't want her to hurt anyone else ...

Francesco and Anna are standing in front of the car looking at each other, her eyes fill with tears, he takes her hand and their heads touch.

INT NIGHT HOUSE OF FRANCIS
Anna is motionless in front of the door,

FRANCIS Tell me to stop and I will

Anna remain silent about it,

FRANCIS (cont'd)
Tell me to take you home, because if not I will do

it now I don't know if I will be able to stop Anna kisses him and then turns and enters the house.

INT LIVING HOUSE OF FRANCIS,

CUT TO:

Francesco pushes Anna to the wall and kisses her, she tries to take off his shirt,

INT BEDROOM
Anna is still dressed, he takes off his shirt and they kiss

CUT TO:

BACK TO:

79.

INT EVENING HOUSE OF FRANCIS 2021

The buzz of the cicadas outside a cold coke dripping onto the table, uefa cup final italy england, Donnarumma does not realize he has saved the winning goal ... Francesco hears the trumpets ringing house by house, flashes of people celebrating.

INT DAY
Jung in Korea watching the Italy game.

INT NIGHT
Amid watching the game from a home in Senegal.

they both look at the photo with francesco.

The screen splits in half and we see the messages on the mobile phone let's meet in San Donato in three days

INT NIGHT FRANCESCO HOUSE
Francesco sleeps with Anna beside him.
The cell phone lights up. He picks up the phone and laughs.

EXT HOUSE OF FRANCESCO NOTTE

Amid jung and Francesco in front of Francesco's house who finally enter, and anna who brings him a drink.

All Happy. End.

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