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- The panorama of human affairs encounters the "man with a movie camera". But what are the last days of this humanity? Have they already passed? Are they now or still to come?
- Carmela is thirty, beautiful and as untamed as an horsewoman. She is jobless and struggles to get by on her own, doing small day-to-day tasks. She makes ends meet by making use of the immigrants who populate the maze of alleyways of Naples' old historic centre. A circle of hell where, even to get a residence permit, you have to pay to work.
- A young criminal and part-time male prostitute, deeply religious and enamored with a Madonna statue, uses his exceptional singing abilities to fund a grand procession for his beloved figure, performing on the streets and selling lighters.
- In a popular courtyard, Fonzino is building the Mother Tosello, a votive altar for the Madonna of the Hens, revealed to the community when on the day of the celebration the procession passes by. Hidden inside the holy cave - Fonzino and his lackeys - build fountains and statues of saints: outside the big wooden gate of the Tosello, the poverty and the smuggling life of the village goes on. Biaggino is a young peasant who works the land at the foot of Vesuvius, spending his life with the elderly women of his village, praying and organizing pilgrimages. Heir of an ancient tradition of prayers, he sings at the opening of both the celebrations, the religious one in the Church and the pagan one in front of the Tosello. He is a femminiello (omosexual male with feminine attitudes, a sort of transgender), but his values keep him separated from the femminiello's community of Pagani, who participate in local rites in a bizarre way. Ermanno is their leader. Stylist and priest housekeeper, he's animated by a bigot devotion and is against the paganity of the community. He prepares altars and Madonna's statues for the celebrations and follows the priest in the celebration of ceremonies. The unveiling of the painting of the Madonna, the chants of the Precious Blood and the Via Crucis announce the arrive of the Madonna of the Hens day. Fonzino fights with the priest to let the rite developing again, as his predecessor did. The community is captured by the rite's call. In a ecstatic delirium, the statue goes out from the Church, marching through ghettos towards the Tosello. Inside it Fonzino waits for the Vergin to knock on the door. Outside the appearance of the Madonna touches deeply the devotees' souls. The drums cymbals roars, the dancers pear up, the Tosello's doors open up to the light and to the pagans celebration.
- Naples 1999, two boys and two girls full of hope. Naples 2013, the same protagonists disenchanted in a paralyzed city.
- Every Tuesday and Friday, the offices of the Independent Institute for Public Housing (IACP) of Naples are open to the public, and 100 employees take on finding practical solutions to citizens' problems and start off the procedures to make them happen. An in-depth look into the slow-moving world of bureaucracy. Sometimes, however, the lively discussions, the personal stories and passionate entreaties of the appellants soften even the most hardhearted officials, convincing them to do what they can to ease the wheels of an impersonal system. As if on a theatrical stage, where everyone plays their part in a performance as challenging and grand as everyday life.
- There's an underground world, right under the skin. It's a globalized suburb: a place where lives together dark and mocking portraits of characters who seem unable to live in this world.
- At the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, ancient statuary is carefully prepared and restored to express all of its classical power.
- It is a documentary that examines the development of a group of teenage kids from the outskirts of Naples and their involvement in a theatre group.
- "One day people will realize that he was right, and that he saw far ahead of everybody else." With these words, Jacques Derridda described Gerardo Marotta, modern Neapolitan Maecenas and President of the Istituto Italiano Studi Filosofici.The Avvocato Marotta is the protagonist of this portrait. He is a contemporary humanist that, for over half a century, struggles to disseminate Culture and education as a mean to achieve social justice.The idea of life as Resistance accompanied Gerardo Marotta throughout his life and induced him to sacrifice his private life and his wealth in the name of the Public Spirit, in particular for the future generations.Today Gerardo Marotta the "Avvocato" is 85 years old and has a dream: to donate to the city and to the his collection of three hundred thousand books collected in his lifetime, but that has not yet found an appropriate location in a public library. The film tells the story of a life full of passion, of a forceful character that conducted many struggles, and of his philosophical, historical and political views, as well of the City where all this takes place. He is a true, fascinating storyteller with an innate sense for acting art, practiced to perfection during his years as lawyer.