Loris De Luna

The lives of the tenants of a lower-class apartment building in the outskirts intersect on a backdrop of crime, drug dealing, confused feelings and tainted relationships, in a lucid portrait of contemporary Rome. Marcello, a bisexual former body builder married with Chiara, has an affair with the bourgeois professor Walter; the ambitious Mauro and cold-blooded dealer and his wife Simona get involved in the ambiguous business of the local boss Carmine to move up to the elegant and cruel circles of central Rome that profit from the public funds for the disadvantaged; Valeria and her son Attilio, Flaminia and her violent husband Bruno face the daily difficulties of their troubled lives. The corrupted powers of urban speculation invade a suspended corner of the suburbs, contaminating the lives of a group of lost souls,revealing the desperate world of the slum and the pitiless scene of the city center as the hidden face of the same coin.

Alba has Down's Syndrome and was left in the hospital when she was born. Thirty families rejected her before the court decided to entrust her to Luca: a Catholic — and gay — single man.

Giuseppe Lojacono, injustement expulsé de Sicile sur soupçon de collusion avec la mafia, est relocalisé à Pizzofalcone avec d'autres policiers qui parviennent à faire triompher la justice là où sa présence avait été oubliée.

Patriarche de la famille Savastano, Don Pietro domine la Camorra, la mafia napolitaine, mais doit faire face à ses nombreux rivaux, tout en préparant sa succession.