Synopsis

Freccia was a champion, one of those players with the ball glued to his feet, a powerful left foot, talent, and charisma. A few years, just enough time to savor the taste of success. Then came the foul that ended his career, the transfer to a Serie C team, the frustration, the involvement in the football betting ring. The curtain fell, leaving a wound that will never heal. Twenty-seven years after that foul, when the circle has now closed, José Pagliara, the one they once called Freccia, is still an unfulfilled promise. He is to his wife, who has isolated herself in a world of silence and obsessions. He is to his daughter, who treats him with icy hostility. He is a loser, tortured by the ghosts of the past, by feelings of guilt, by the obsessive memory of a tragic childhood afternoon on the pitch under the hill. Speaking of football, of passion and obstinacy, of selfishness and corruption, Claudio Grattacaso tells the story of a failed champion, forced by life to deal with the consequences of his own actions and to pursue a new awareness within himself, in search of answers and a second chance.