Fausto, a bored middle-aged factory worker, connects with philosophy student Ivan online. They both share an extreme thought—that is dark and beyond human standards. In a remote valley eaten away by industrial towns, they meet and plan an escape from their everyday existence.

Toying with knives and dropping acid—Francesco Sossai’s hypnotizing debut film is a regular buddy movie, but for the taboo-dark scheme that brings its lonely characters together. Silvery monochrome photography lends a keen edge to a genuinely sweet connection between outsiders, one short, one tall.