This is the new film by one of the most interesting Italian directors on the contemporary scene, Andrea Pallaoro, whose three last works have always been selected for main competition in Venice. This time he will try his hand at adapting a classic written by one of the most significant European and Italian intellectuals of the 20th century, Alberto Moravia, who in 1943 wrote this book entitled “Agostino”, the intense and dramatic coming-of-age story of Agostino, a 13-Years old boy who finds himself questioning his own identity and future during a dramatic summer vacation. Even through the troubled relationship with his mother and an authentic and necessary crisis, the boy eventually discloses the meaning of his life and the desire to rebuild his own world.