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Sono trentacinque, ormai, gli anni che Nicola ha passato in manicomio, che lui chiama "condominio di santi". Ne è passato di tempo da quando è entrato da giovanissimo, e ne ha viste e vissute tante. Nella sua testa i ricordi, la realtà e la fantasia si mischiano, finché un giorno incontra il suo amore d'infanzia... Nato nei "favolosi anni sessanta", vede il mondo dentro l'istituto molto simile a quello che sta fuori: un mondo sempre più vorace, dove l'unica cosa che sembra non potersi consumare è la paura.
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The Black Sheep (2010)
93 min
Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola's mother suffered from mental illness, and when young Nicola grew old enough to understand some of her stranger behavior as well as the family's other dark secrets, a few of the adults around him preferred to suggest he was disturbed like his mother, and he was encouraged to visit an asylum not far from his home. As an adult, Nicola has spent enough time around people who have a tenuous connection with reality that he has a superficial resemblance to them, and has developed a strange set of imaginary friends to go along with his eccentric real-life companions and the woman he loves from afar, Marinella.