Lorena Scintu

Love made it Italy. Elephant in the Room. Amantea, present day. When Rita finds out that she has very little time left to live, her main concern is to fight death. She is overcome with worry about her son Gianni, who has a heart of gold, but is socially awkward and, at 40, still lives at home. Rita enlists the help of Daniela, a newcomer to town who is recently divorced and has sworn off men altogether. Daniela agrees to become a teacher for Gianni about male-female relationships, and that's when things get complicated.

He is a plain estate agent who lives his uneventful life in the anonymous suburb of an unspecified city. Indeed such a showing of "compulsive ordinariness" conceals his predicament of autistic isolation. Therefore, as he attempts to make up the illusion of an ideal world, he daily puts on a pantomime of the "perfect neighborhood", which is painstakingly staged by a group of paid walk on people. While such an artifice seems to help him fulfill his unexpressed love dream, a harsh overwhelming reality forces him to give up his illusions and eventually get in touch with the imperfect human dimension. The Plastic Cardboard Sonata is a story of urban loneliness, featuring lyric suggestions in the context of a paradoxical frame. By means of an accurate use of silence it sketches out the essence of daily life malaise.