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Cast

Luisa Amatucci

Luisa Amatucci

Isa Danieli

Isa Danieli

Helmi Dridi

Helmi Dridi

Nadia Kibout

Nadia Kibout

Mario Porfito

Mario Porfito

Crew

Stefano Amatucci

Stefano Amatucci

Writer

Davide Morganti

Davide Morganti

Writer

Stefano Amatucci

Stefano Amatucci

Director

Roberta Allegrini

Roberta Allegrini

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Rocco Marra

Rocco Marra

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Caina

20200.0 / 1089 min
Drama, Crime

Overview

Adapted, at first into a theatre play, and now into a film from Davide Morgante’s book by the same name,

The eponymous protagonist of the film is a former assassin. She is a xenophobic and violent person, her life has always been filled with hate towards those who don’t share the same physical or cultural features; chiefly immigrants and muslims. Her job during the summer is to guard the beach and pick up the corpses of illegal immigrants who have drowned off-shore in their desperate attempt to reach the coast earning petty cash for each body. It’s a lucrative business so she has to face the competition of many illegal corpse-collectors. Nahiri, a Tunisian man, is one of them. He works with a group of illegal immigrants, who snatches the corpses from Caina and sells them in the black market. In order to increase their profit, it is not rare that they drown those who survived but are too weak to fight for their lives. It’s a ruthless business in which, sometimes, the opposites attract.