


The slender story unfolds against a lightly-sketched background of regional separatism–one sequence depicts a public meeting of a group calling for the independence of the Veneto area (not, as the English-language subtitles misleadingly suggest, of Venice). The girls hit upon a blackmail scheme as a quick means of escape, but their machinations yield unforeseen complications. Luisa, meanwhile, risks the wrath of her foreigner-hating dad Franco ( Mirko Artuso) by drifting into a relationship with the ever-smiling, scooter-riding Bilal ( Vladimir Doda), a member of the area’s widely-despised community of Albanian economic migrants. Eking out meager incomes with occasional sex-work, the duo hit on a get-rich-quick blackmail scheme targeting a morally bankrupt relative, one which results in predictable complications.
