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The first years of Pier Paolo Pasolini in Rome, 1951-1954. His experience as a teacher in a school of a roman suburb, "la borgata", where he founded the characters and situations of his novels: "Ragazzi di vita" and "Una vita violenta". The movie is a mix of fictional documentary, shot in black and white, and the testimonies of Attilio Bertolucci, Vincenzo Cerami, Franco and Sergio Citti, Ennio De Concini and Paolo Volponi.
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In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque façade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.