Le bimbe atomiche (2019)

Between Naples and Capri today. Otto is a psychodramatist who turns seventy, shows fifty and secretly feels thirty. He lives with Julia an english and disturbed woman who reminds him his first woman and who torments him. But Otto is happy when he works with Fresco, a gay and nice boy who, three years before, trained with him. Fresco is Otto's favorite pupil, the only one who stands by him all day to tackle every work problem together with enthusiasm. Many say that they complete each other because both do things with their hands but those of Otto are moved by the mind, those of Fresco from the heart. Otto encouraged Fresco to turn his thesis on a series of his psychoplays related to gay cinema into a brilliant novel where he describes his work and his life. No other student of the School had the courage to do such an autobiographical operation. The novel has found a publisher and becomes popular with both children and adults. The only one who rejected him is Fresco's father who don't understand the theoretical parts and don't accept the real life description of his family. Otto organizes in a Villa in Capri offered by prof. Boldini, a rich old manager, a Psychodrama Theater "Il Teatro del Tempo" unique in the word where he utilizes music, videos and toys as he did many years before in Turin when he produced a TV program of psychodramas that had a big success. In exchange for his support, Boldini asks to transfer to Capri the huge collection of puppets and toys from the studio in Vomero, which has been in the Otto's home for the past 40 years, whose rental contract is about to expire. Fresco is intelligent and comes from a poor family: they are big friends and together are also producing with big efforts a documentary in Rome about Roberto Capucci a master of High Fashion that Julia hates and calls 'il filmetto'. Otto and Fresco overcome with spontaneity any problem of the production: despite the difference of age, Cinecittà people call them 'I ragazzi'. In Christmas Fresco, with the help of Otto, leaves his old boring partner and starts frequenting Rondo a new companion of his age with the prospective to do a civil union and to adopt children. Rondo is a lawyer and belongs to a middle class family. Julia leaves Otto because is jealous of Fresco and accuses Otto to have a gay trend toward him. In Christmas also arrives in Rome from Canada, Fabio: Otto's old partner who - after ten years of common life where Otto helped him to become a quoted painter - left him and went to work in Canada where he had a professional success. Suddenly some ancient traumas emerge from Otto's unconscious memory and risk to poison his relationship with Fresco. Otto becomes crazy for jealousy and is tempted to destroy Fresco, himself and their work. After many years the removed reaction explodes against the young Fresco who is involved and attacked by ghosts emerging from the past of Otto. But the boy remains with his master. Otto becomes crazy for many months but Fresco faces the situation with a mixture of intelligence, generosity and neapolitan humor. He forces Otto to create his own personal psychodrama about his traumas. One trauma, narrated in the Bricconaggio Perdo/nanda Pivano (2018), is linked to his ancient love for the wonderful lady writer with whom Otto had a long relationship at the age of twenty. The second trauma of his life (narrated in the Bricconaggio I cani dell'acqua marcia (2018)) is the double betrayal created by Fabio and dr. Hide (the didactic analyst of Otto) who made sex with Fabio during the analytic sessions payed by Otto. Boldini, the rich man owner of the Villa in Capri doesn't approve the scandal and withdraws the financing of the Theater of Time if Otto doesn't If Otto does not withdraw his two bindings from the web in which he names the persons involved. Boldini doesn't critic the personal life of Otto and his Coming out but invites him to defense the privacy and the classic analytical attitude. Boldini doesn't want link his name to a psychotherapist who has experienced the sexual and personal problems described in the bricconaggi. Otto refuses. He and and Fresco survive and complete the documentary about Capucci. Julia disappears. They bring back to Naples the collection of toys and puppets and look for a new sponsors of the psychodrama theater.