Synopsis

What was it like to be almost eighteen in the mid-'90s, when there were no cell phones and the music was the ragged bands of your friends, when to win a girl you made mixtapes and your first solo trip was Interrail? Giovanni Za tells us the tragicomic adventures of a group of high school students approaching graduation, a group in which the boys are cerebral and unresolved, the girls are rockers, politics is a role-playing game, and sex is a painful transition. There's Carlo Gustavo, the pointlessly cultured romantic who understands Leopardi better than his peers; Mastarna, who reads Dylan Dog naked and has a small fixation with Citizen B.; Moya, who, unable to have Gamla Fru, seeks her own kundalini; Gamla Fru, who adores Moya but always and only as a friend; Ariel Nata con le Ali, who despite always being high seems the most aware of her goals; Alexander, who risks becoming a great tennis player but is ashamed to tell her friends; Kazu Makino, who seems ethereal but maintains that the Spice Girls and Marilyn Manson are the same thing: disgusting market... Between jobs spelled with a k, boozy parties, school elections, their last trip, and all their first times, this group of self-conscious teenagers faces, without epic drama, the greatest of challenges: choosing what skin to wear as adults, figuring out what destiny awaits them beyond the gates of adulthood, even if everything seems confusing and they have no means. With a writing style that is never banal, reminiscent of the great American writers of the 90s, Giovanni Za tells us the true story of Come te nessuno mai, the B-side of a student epic and of the last generation that grew up in the last century.