Three teens - a skateboarder, a graffiti artist and a ski champion - discover the adult world.

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With his group of friends, Jullo (Yanick Cohades) spends most of his time skateboarding - until an accident reveals a heart defect that will require a transplant. Chiara, (Lara Gut, real-life three-time World Ski Champion) a celebrity skier, sees her popularity decline when she refuses to play nice with the media or her sponsors. And there is Edo (Nicola Pero), a passionate graffiti artist and ice hockey fan. Seemingly the most introverted and lonely of the three, Edo falls victim to the kind of shock that will keep him from breaking loose from his adolescent rebellion...

With his first feature, which debuted at Locarno in 2012, Niccolo Castelli wanted to direct "a film about the passage from adolescence to adulthood, about self-awareness, about lonely choices made along one's personal path, made up of dreams and fears, successes and losses". Unfortunately, despite its convincing young actors, the "emotional whirlwind" of adolescence has a hard time making it to the screen, never mind to the audience. It seems to be completely confined to the excellent soundtrack by the rock group Kovlo. What's left are interesting images of an underground Lugano usually known only to insiders. Small comfort...