Manuel

An eighteen-year-old boy is released from an institute for minors with no family support, and for the first time tastes the bittersweet flavor of freedom; an imprisoned mother longs to go back and start all over again. These are the characters taken from the real world and transferred into a film that is first of all a shadowing of human beings, of their hopes and little acts of cowardice. But it is also the story of a time of waiting, of a soul going around in circles, a coming of age in a desolate and oppressive, marginal context that becomes a character in its own right.

Cast

Andrea Lattanzi

Manuel

Francesca Antonelli

Veronica

Giulia Elettra Gorietti

Francesca

Renato Scarpa

Sor Attilio

Loretta Rossi Stuart

Moglie di Elpidio

Raffaella Rea

Marzia

Alessandra Scirdi

Nunzia

Monica Carpanese

Assistante sociale

Luciano Miele

Avvocato Marone

Alessandro Di Carlo

Elpidio