A group of kids from the Rione Sanità comes to blows with a group from the Quartieri Spagnoli by a Christmas tree in Galleria Umberto I in Naples: these two neighbourhoods are the settings for the story of the former’s rise through the alleyways of the historical centre in a world of petty criminality. At the Cemetery delle Fontanelle, Nicola and Agostino ask for protection from Donna Concetta by touching her head which tradition believes “sweats” purifying water from heaven.
The kids’ escapades grow in violence, such as arson of a rival’s car in Largo Tarsia, and a few light-hearted moments such as Nicola and Letizia’s first date at Teatro San Carlo. The group’s meeting place is Villa Livia at the Parco Grifeo in Naples.
A group of kids from the Rione Sanità comes to blows with a group from the Quartieri Spagnoli by a Christmas tree in Galleria Umberto I in Naples: these two neighbourhoods are the settings for the story of the former’s rise through the alleyways of the historical centre in a world of petty criminality. At the Cemetery delle Fontanelle, Nicola and Agostino ask for protection from Donna Concetta by touching her head which tradition believes “sweats” purifying water from heaven.
The kids’ escapades grow in violence, such as arson of a rival’s car in Largo Tarsia, and a few light-hearted moments such as Nicola and Letizia’s first date at Teatro San Carlo. The group’s meeting place is Villa Livia at the Parco Grifeo in Naples.
The fifteen-year-old Nicola and his friends want to earn power in the Rione Sanità neighbourhood of Naples, willing to risk everything they have for a life of crime. Deluded by thoughts of making money and dispensing justice, they are constantly at war, with others and themselves.
