DOVE COMINCIA LA NOTTE

“Dove inizia la notte” (Where the night begins) is a melancholic noir, time one of the most raw yet polished in recent years. It is the portrait of a city - unknown in many ways - able to give you glimpses of infinite sweetness, while stabbing you at the heart a second later.

Roberto De Angelis is a good cop, the best in the “Bari Mobile” squad. He is always on the lookout, especially at night, when the city forgets her beauty and becomes the land of crime. But a street life is a life of solitude, disillusionment and daily violence, and even the toughest cop wonders whether it really makes sense to keep fighting. There is a woman, a doctor in her thirties, that could give him a second chance, a new life; but she has a dark side, she is unable to tell love from pain; Roberto can not, does not want to approve of that. The opportunity to redeem himself appears when he intercepts Giacinto Trentadue, a young drug dealer, no more than a juvenile delinquent, at least in appearance. Roberto shadows him to Poggiofelice, a residence in the southern part of the city, once a shelter for evicted people. Roberto does not know it yet, but he has located the fortress of the new Bari’s underworld, a "wild bunch" that came out of the historic districts and is ready to unleash a bloody campaign to conquer the territory. For the cop it is only the beginning of a journey to hell, beyond his own limits and that of the law too.

Alessio Viola, former worker, teacher, host and rugby player, contributed to "La Repubblica" and "Corriere del Mezzogiorno"; he wrote, among other, numerous articles about the hidden economy of Bari.