Carolina Iaquaniello

When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself at sea with an environment where students sort themselves by social class and their parents' political affiliation.

Stella is a single-minded girl with in her pocket a plane ticket that'll take her away from her father and the pain of her mother's death. Along with her older brother Iuri, an affectionate but vaguely paranoid boy who can't stand authority, she attends a rave where they meet Bruno, a young man with a violent and dissolute—but at the same time honest and childish—character. The three live together strange adventures, until Iuri finds out that Stella is planning to run away without him.