A young man and woman are confined in a huge abandoned building in a working-class neighborhood. One must watch over the other. She is a captive and he is forced by the local mobster to be her jailer. Despite their youth, both act older than their age…Veronica as a mature and uninhibited woman, and Salvatore as a young man who must follow orders to preserve his own well-being. They react differently to the violence that is all around them. Veronica is restless and rebellious; Salvatore is yielding and more accommodating; but who knows if it is out or fear or pragmatism. Both are essentially victims, but they blame each other for their imprisonment. As time goes by however, the hostility between the pair softens, leading to intimacy, punctuated with mutual discoveries and confessions. In this frightening and isolated place, Veronica and Salvatore surprisingly find a way to reignite the dreams and illusions of their lost adolescences. The two share a welcome break from their harsh adult lives, a moment of escapism, before having to address the cruel reality of a violent criminal gang ultimately deciding Veronica's fate. A story about broken love, ruined poetry. A thriller built around the difficulty of being a teenager in the turbulent suburbs of a contemporary metropolis. Leonardo Di Costanzo is a talent of modern European realism, and this is his first fictional feature film. Written with Mariangela Barbanente and Maurizio Braucci, an important writer of the new Italian fiction genre and screenwriter of Gomorra.