Fabio F. Del Greco, recently released his second film and I highly recommend it. Fans of directors like Nic Roeg, David Cronenberg and David Lynch, especially his Lost Highway, and writers like Philip K. Dick, William S. Burroughs, George Orwell and JG Ballard should find much to enjoy here.
An everyman, Giuseppe (Fabio Del Greco), seems to be sleepwalking through life, going through the motions, in a loveless relationship with a girlfriend whose raison d'etre is to, seemingly, be a compliant consumer. He has a boring job, and works with an associate obsessed with illegal immigration, who attempts to interest Giuseppe in joining him at anti-immigration rallies, but Giuseppe seems disinterested, at best. One day, while driving his car, Giuseppe is stopped by a a "vagabond," who hands him a videotape. The VHS shows Giuseppe at a younger age, interspersed with footage of the vagabond. Giuseppe is freaked out and grabs a box of videotapes he made in his youth, which are now also interspersed with images of the vagabond. Meanwhile, there appears to be a conspiracy between the government, the private sector and the church - a triumvirate - to control the more rebellious individuals of society. Was Giuseppe a poet in his past? Did someone steal his poetry and publish it as their own? Did this crush his spirit? Does the conspiracy actually exist or is it the imaginary nightmare of a lunatic gone insane.
Highly recommend!