Directed by: Angelo Longoni
With: Laura Morante, Alessio Boni
Duration: 83 mins
The new film from Angelo Longoni is a powerful white-knuckle thriller about the corruption of innocence and imagination, featuring a captivating performance by Laura Morante (THE SON’S ROOM) as a wife and mother who is pushed to desperation.
Laura (Morante) and Franc (Alessio Boni) have recently separated, with Franc providing alimony to her to help care for their nine-year old son Luca. It’s barely enough to pay for daily expenses though, so Laura’s forced to take a part time job as a ‘phone sex’ operator, and Franc uses this ‘moral corruption’ to challenge for custody of Luca. Meanwhile, Luca, increasingly lonely, and traumatised by his feuding parents, invents an imaginary friend Tommi, who’s not afraid of the violent figure of his father. Their lives are about to change though, for one of Laura’s customers, a softly spoken man, claims to know about her and her son and promises to visit...
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