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During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed.

Cast

Silvio Orlando

as Ciro

Francesca Neri

as Lucia

Antonio Catania

as Elia

Marco Manchisi

as Michele

Ighèzu Mussiè

as Munir

Gigio Alberti

as Gianni

Antonio Petrocelli

as MP Colonel

Mario Santella

Tonino Taiuti

Claudio Bisio

as Giacomo Fiori

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