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Matteo Olivetti and Andrea Carpenzano turn in stellar performances as Mirko and Manolo, best friends who live with their single parents in a tough neighborhood of a Roman suburb. They are still in school, training to be caterers or barmen or something useful, and making minimum wage delivering pizzas. An accident sets off a chain of events, propelling them from good-natured, roughhousing buddies to thugs on the bottom rung of the local gang’s ladder, facing increasingly difficult choices. Their new level of income and what it buys is intoxicating at first; they share dreams of women and clothes and fancy sneakers. Manolo’s father helps them on the road to illegal activities and takes pride in his son’s new position; while Mirko’s mother suffers as she watches the son she loves slip away into a murky world of crime and immorality. The Innocenzo Brothers’ tale of two young men with few economic choices is nuanced and riveting.