Atlantide

Daniele is a young man from SantErasmo an island on the edges of the Venice Lagoon He lives on his wits isolated even from his peer group who are busy exploring an existence of pleasureseeking expressed in the cult of the barchino motorboat This obsession focuses on the building of ever more powerful engines to transform the little lagoon launches into dangerously fast racing boats Daniele too dreams of a recordbreaking barchino one that will take him to the top of the leader board but everything he does to further his dream and win respect from the others turns out to be tragically counterproductive The decline that erodes the relationships environment and habits of a rootless generation is observed from the timeless perspective of the Venetian landscape and its island outskirts the point of no return is a foolish vestigial tale of male initiation Violent and destined to fail it explodes dragging the ghost city along on a psychedelic shipwreck