Genre: Thriller

Language: Italian with English Subtitles

Director: Angelo Longoni

Cast: Laura Morante, Alessio Boni, Eleonora Ivone, Valeria Milillo

Released: 2005

Duration: 90 Minutes

Rating: M contains violence, sexual references and offensive language

Distribution: Palace Films

The new film by 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 pushed to desperation.

Laura (Morante) and Franco (Alessio Boni) have recently separated due to Laura’s infidelity.  Franco provides alimony for their nine-year-old son Luca, but it is barely enough to cover daily living expenses, and Laura is forced to take a part-time job as a ‘phone-sex’ operator.  Franc uses this ‘moral corruption’ to challenge for custody of Luca.

Meanwhile Luca, increasingly lonely and traumatized by his feuding parents, invents an imaginary friend, Tommy.  Tommy represents all that Luca fails to be in reality.  Luca is intimidated by his father’s strong and violent personality and instinctively gets closer to his mother, whereas imaginary Tommy admires Luca’s dad and dreams to be like him one day.

Their lives are about to change though, when Angelo, one of Laura’s customers, a softly spoken man, who seems to know too much about mother and son, begins to haunt Laura.  As Laura senses she is being followed and begins to fear for her son’s safety, she becomes torn between revealing a damaging fact and protecting her son.  Sharing with Laura a distorted perception of the world around us, we are kept on the edge of our seats as the film’s conclusion plunges into a darkness that will reveal the cruel and unsuspected truth.