In a chaotic Rome, a boy rides through the rain in a city that doesn’t see him. From this image comes Liberamente ispirato, the story of Juan, a young Italo-Latin American delivery rider, and Carlo, his peer raised in privilege. A broken SUV mirror, in the rush of deliveries, brings them face to face: Juan owes Carlo a disproportionate amount in damages he cannot afford. To be heard, he tells Carlo his life, and Carlo recognizes in those words the true story he never managed to invent. He listens, takes notes in secret, then pays everything off and closes the matter. Juan thinks it’s over, but that gesture isn’t kindness: it’s an investment. One evening, in a suburban bar, his gaze stops on a television screen: Carlo is presenting “Between the Lines”, his debut novel—a Latin American rider, a single mother, an accident in the rain. Every word is his life, reassembled and polished. From that moment, Juan’s battle changes in nature, no longer a broken mirror, but reclaiming the right to exist in his own story. The two end up chasing each other, opposite mirrors slowly transforming, neither is a hero, neither is a villain. Both must decide how to move forward: Juan risks betraying his own principles in pursuit of justice, while Carlo must find out whether he has the courage to lose everything to discover who he really is. Liberamente ispirato wants to give voice to those who live on the margins but are, paradoxically, the spark from which great stories are born. It explores the divide, not only economic but narrative, between those who live stories and those who have the power to tell them, showing two opposite worlds that collide and inevitably bleed into each other. The form is still being defined. The serial hypothesis fascinates me: each episode as a chapter of Carlo’s novel, Juan dismantling his own reassembled life in a counter-investigation into himself. But I’m also considering a feature film. The residency is the place where I want to find the answer: developing the outline and writing the first scenes.
