Synopsis

One last night out with his lifelong friends, just one. What could be wrong with that? And yet, notary Ranò, a wealthy Roman bourgeois, finds himself in jail, and then before a magistrate. And the truth comes out. Not just the story of the wild night that wrecked the reunion, but, like a raging river, the confession of a lifetime, of the adventures of a boy and his motley crew of companions. At the center of it all is him, the great friend who made it, Marco Bonetti, the famous director who ended up in prison with him... Ranò's "confession" thus unfolds a coming-of-age journey illuminated by a great male friendship, amidst sentimental catastrophes and bravado bordering on decorum, misguided and wonderful vacations, and scooter rides in the freezing cold of a Rome he lived and loved. How did we lose sight of the dreams of our youth? What is the line between adolescence and adulthood, between possibility and regret, between success and betrayal? And when is it too late to understand? The story of notary Ranò and director Bonetti is also the story of a generation, the kids of the 1980s: those of the ebb, of commercial television, of the five-party coalition, of the collapse of global ideologies. But also those, perhaps the last, who experienced adolescence as a magical time, full of possibilities, with the belief that they could make it, relying only on their own strength.