Bernardo is a charming, successful man, full of friends, always frantically searching for his freedom. For a bad twist of fate one day everything changes, putting him in front of a choice: accept what has happened or become someone else, to take back what life has taken from him.

Facciamo tutti centro “is a story about everyday extraordinary people, with silent narration, a revolutionary realist and a relentless dreamer enthused about the future”, according to a statement released by the production team. It’s a story about the love and friendship between 3 children – Gollum, Frank and Nina – who are looking for their place in the world, for freedom, and for affirmation of their own uniqueness, of their way of experiencing reality and of an anarchic love in a romantically rendered Milan, a city of dreams and adventure for those like them who live outside of the outer circle, in commuter towns, but it’s also a city of harsh and complex realities which people are forced to contend with.

In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope's soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive a Catholic education. Edgardo's parents, distraught, will do anything to get their son back. Supported by public opinion and the international Jewish community, the Mortaras' struggle quickly take a political dimension. But the Church and the Pope will not agree to return the child, to consolidate an increasingly wavering power…