Luigi Gatti

Portrait acide de la jeunesse italienne de l'époque, Les Dauphins raconte une saison morne, pleine de mécontentement et de méchanceté dans la vie d'un groupe profondément désagréable de jeunes pour la plupart riches dans une petite ville de la côte adriatique.

Good bourgeois damage unintentionally life of a drug-party, during which the mistress of the house is raped without recognizing the aggressor. Both she and her husband come into crisis and try to figure out who it was. The truth comes to the surface slowly, and it is unexpected.

In the city of Ostuni in Puglia, the mute seminarian Ercole is designated to be the driver and nurse of Parsifal, the paraplegic son in a rich and sanctimonious family of landowners. Ercole soon becomes the lover of his master's wife, the beautiful Baroness Clotilde. In a familial and social context where only money, sex and power count, everyone tries to take advantage of everyone, but the real saprophyte turns out to be Ercole.