Edoardo Pagliai

L'amore, il sole e le altre stelle

As a child, Jack believed the tender lie his parents told him, that Gio was a special being with superpowers, as in a comic book. Now that he is about to go to high school, however, Jack no longer believes that his brother is a superhero, in fact, he is almost ashamed of him, especially since he met Arianna, the first love of his life.

Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-years-old Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with irritation to the pressures of the outside world, which do nothing but exacerbate his insecurity. Forced against his will to emerge from the shadows in which he has hidden for years, Edoardo will initially try to solve his problem by clumsy stratagems before finding, at last, the courage to face his own fears.

Marco is an anxious nineteen-year-old on the brink of adulthood, with three subjects to make up, a mother who lives with her smartphone in hand, and a brother who dreams of being an indie singer. He's anti-social and longs to experience love the way it used to be. Aria graduated the previous year, with "one day at a time" tattooed on her arm, and she lives each day as if it were her last. Following a wrongly memorized phone number, Marco and Aria meet and begin to develop feelings for each other... However, Marco is unaware that Aria lives one day at a time, not because she's as beautiful and rebellious as she tries to appear, but due to a degenerative disease that makes her go to sleep uncertain if there will be a tomorrow. A fun and gripping teen love drama that narrates the incredible and surprising journey that the protagonists will embark upon. All in pursuit of something as simple as it is complicated in today's world: falling in love.

Three childhood friends reunite in the small town they grew up in when one of them returns after two years abroad. Between bonds and different life paths, “Ontario” is a small story about growing up, failing, uncertainty and unspoken love in a day and age where we feel like we absolutely have to make it