Director: Andrea Porporati
Screenplay: Andrea Porporati
Photography: Franco Lecca
Sound Engineer: Alessandro Zanon 
Cast: Fabrizio Gifuni, Valerio Mastandrea, Delia Boccardo, Emanuela Macchniz, Gianni Cavina
Editing: Simona Paggi
Produced by: Sorpasso Film with Rai Cinema, via G.L. Lagrange 16, Roma, tel. 06 80691057, fax 06 80691062, e-mail sorpassofilm@tin.it 
Year: 2001. Running Time: 87’

Marco has murdered his father. It is one of those seemingly inexplicable crimes that the press attributes to a “fit of madness”. Marco appears to lead a normal life in prosperous Northern Italy, but beneath the façade, his mind is disturbed, harboring an apparently unexplainable hatred for his father that keeps growing day by day, year after year, until it results in murder. After the murder, Marco takes refuge in a seaside area, in a small hotel, patronized by tourists on holiday. This is where Rinaldi, a policeman who suspects him, catches up with him. However, Rinaldi realizes that Marco is not an ordinary criminal; that he is clearly a young man overwhelmed by dramatic events and a shock he had experienced in the past that changed him and in a certain sense, compelled him to commit the crime. A young adolescent girl staying in the hotel room next to Marco’s has become infatuated with him, but will never know that the object of her affection is a murderer. Her impossible love, so fragile but intense, is irresistible to Marco and precipitates the start of a deep crisis that leads him to discover the real reasons that led him to murder, reasons that were unknown even to himself and are embedded in his personality and his past. The process represents an emergence from the zone of shadows that exists deep inside all of us and is the key to the mystery of the banality of evil.