Film Commission Torino Piemonte

Pietro, forty years old, known as “Vangò,” is a taciturn inmate with a natural talent for drawing. On semi-release, he works at a plant nursery, tending the plants as he observes the world: in silence. In prison he is respected by fellow inmates and tolerated by officers, often violent and sarcastic. By his side are Nicola, ironic and full of life, and Francis, his dead brother who accompanies him like a ghost. The suspension of outside work forces everyone back into an overcrowded, suffocating prison. Tensions erupt into a riot that exposes the institution’s brutality. Pietro witnesses the collective degradation as Francis’s ghost urges him to remain invisible. The violence engulfs Nicola and forces the officer Guido into an irreversible choice. In the end, Pietro makes a lucid and desperate gesture against a world built on oppression.