The film follows a gang of youths who spend every day collecting scrap metal from derelict houses. They live in Pozzuoli, an old fishing village which has repeatedly been hit by earthquakes.
The creative documentary ‘Scalamara’ tells of the dream of a man of 71 who is still looking for his mother who abandoned him as a child and who has become over the course of his difficult life an unattainable chimera.
Two genocides: the first perpetrated by Hutu extremists against the Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda in 1995; the second, in ex-Zaire, is the killing by Tutsi of the Hutu who escaped Rwanda.