The GRA, Great Ring Road, is the longest urban motorway in Italy.
It encircles the city of Rome like a ring of Saturn.
Hi, it's 617 speaking, do me a favour:
Can you cancel the fire department intervention for my rescue?
We took the patient out of the ditch by ourselves.
Keep calm! We're going to put this on you to stay warm.
OK?
No, no... - It'll keep you warm.
It's good for you! It keeps you warm, understand? You won't feel cold.
Then we'll unwrap you on Easter!
Stay calm with your hands! No, no, no, no, no.
Keep calm, please!
You need to stay warm, it's cold outside, come on!
We put this on you on purpose.
South-east palm...
number 06...
absence of noise.
Oasis' eye...
palm 6, side...
South-east.
Presence...
of noise...
larvae's squeaking...
And adults' noise, immediate intervention.
Stop.
We are at...
at the exit of the Ring Road. You must take exit number 2,
Boccea, and drive through via Boccea.
We can rent
for any kind of location.
For cinema, theatre,
fashion shows,
birthday parties.
Yes.
Yes, of course.
For an aristocratic house, let's say.
Yes, we have a huge hall.
Yes, sure.
We offer bed-and-brecfas. We offer bed-and-brefast.
Yes.
The eyelash of a mask, oh my! Wait, wait, I'll put something!
If I take...
French eels. Right?
Then I take those from America, then those from Africa,
and I bring them to Italy, with our waters, and our problems,
if this eel that I bring over has 10 microbes
in Italy they grow to 2 million,
because they have a different life and habitat.
Then we mix all these microbes... we put them all together...
But I say,
if you wanna do research, OK? Then do it...
In Russia, in America, do it where the hell you want, with your stuff...
but don't mix it up!
You want to create an eel livestock? Do it with the Italian eel!
What's the need to go elsewhere... to do some crap?
Here's another, Irè. This is a real laugh!
Listen to this, Irè! So then...
"Eels are traditionally fished and eaten during winter". Right!
"That is, right after reproduction". Says who?
If they reproduce in the Sargasso Sea,
how can I eat an eel right after reproduction?
I'd have to fish it in the Sargasso Sea!
This is a jumbo nonsense!
"Once again it shifts on who buys...
Dear citizens, our 30% of land, for the obstruct..."
Aw, come on, go learn the language!
Go to school!
This is really rubbish, Irè!
Better throw away everything, and so long!
We're truly in the hands of people that understand nothing, and zilch.
But us, who spend an entire life on the water, nobody consults us.
Nobody cares about us.
Right, Irè?
What do you say, Irè? It's alright as is?
Let's go on, what do we care!
If you keep on cutting and sewing...
We'll call you Penelope!
Yes!
Yes, yes, tell him yes.
Exactly, this is it. Stop the other unit, we're already there ourselves.
Alright, I'll call you back soon.
Look at all those flyers!
What the fuck did he do? - They went on a binge. Look at how he wrecked the car!
Where is he, still inside? - I don't know. - Careful for the gasoline.
Gentlemen, will you go away with those cars? We can't pass.
One is fine.
Come give me a hand.
Unit 617 heading to Sant'Andrea Hospital.
Where is the Sant'Andrea? - Here on the Ring Road.
Unit 617 heading to Sant'Andrea.
Headquarters? Received?
Look, the 113 does not respond.
Hey, can I work tomorrow?
I don't think so. Moreover, some rest won't hurt you.
Rest? Who the fuck will pay me?
Come to me.
I give away money!
Are we already there? - Yes. - Wow!
I could have gone on foot to the hospital! - No, you'd have gone in projection!
Going!
Go, it's loose...
Look what a show!
Over there, St. Peter's dome. No doubt, the dome can be seen just everywhere!
Look.
Over there.
You know, I was observing that... I don't know!
These houses, are they inhabited?
Which ones? - These here. - The terraced houses? - Yes, those.
There is nobody! - These up front or over there?
Here there was a light, last night. You know, this new house?
Yes, they're inhabited, at times... - This one, yes.
But in those ones there is never a light.
Nothing - Maybe they're not as blind as me, so they don't need light.
Don't you say, come on, but it's not possible!
When a house is occupied and inhabited, some light can be seen.
Not that I spend the evenings to check, but definitely I would see something.
I don't know, I never noticed.
No, there is someone there, on the ground floor.
Those who have, y'know, dogs, the black and white dog... - No - that play... Here!
In the lawn
adjacent to this ours,
where there are those two trees.
Lallarella! Good morning!
Hi, Lapiz!
So, tell me the menu today. - Menu today: cold pasta...
I put tomatoes...
tuna...
and mozzarella.
Why not some oregano?
I don't have it! Now don't start, though! It's already so much what I'm doing!
A truck overtook us,
with a trailer.
Unfortunately,
getting back in lane,
it hit full on
our friend who was ahead. - I'll be damned!
He was thrown on that...
rocky...
wall...
I won't tell you where they found his brain.
Darling, tell me something good. You're only saying ugly things.
I work all day on an ambulance,
and you come with all these misfortunes!
Do I get in too? - Come on, get in.
Get in. Long as we're here.
Now comes the police: "Your ID"...
"What are you doing here? You gotta go away, it's time."
What can you do? This is our shitty life, sadly.
Some got a lot and some have not.
Look at that pot belly!
He looks like Buddha, and is even a cop. Look at his belly!
The belly gets there a mile before him!
What can you do? That's life. It's gonna get cold, winter...
I gotta buy a pair of boots...
tomorrow.
What can you do? That's life!
Headquarters, unit 617 on the spot.
Come in.
Warn the Sant'Andrea that we're coming with a code 3. We need a resuscitator.
I'll call them.
One...
Two. - One, two, three, four five, six, seven...
...24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. Go!
Red palm weevil...
The true enemy of the palm.
They have a social structure
perfectly organised.
Some individuals,
particularly gifted,
can smell the prey
at a long distance.
And thus,
they call
their peers
to organise group orgies.
They then hurl themselves on the individual and start,
after having spawned,
to colonise it.
They feed on it
until its destruction,
and they are not interested
in other individuals
except when
that being
has been completely destroyed.
And the cycle begins again.
And it's bad!
For the world of palm trees
and symbolically, even for man, because
the palm tree
is shaped like the human soul.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death, amen.
Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever, forever and ever, amen.
Virgin of Revelation, pray for us and give us the love of God.
Hi Umberto!
Well, just getting by!
How about yourself?
Holy crap! This Ring Road! Goddammit!
I'd swear every saint, I can't stand it anymore!
And good thing that I took off early! And then,
a girl I'm helping is waiting for me, we're shooting together.
I was called by the director of a photonovel, I'm working,
he gave me a role as butler.
I'll tell you, I sniffed it so much that, probably, something...
Was lost? - Was lost, yes. - It's likely.
Who knows? Let's wait and see.
So it's not you who starts having a musty odour... - Well...
On the other hand, I already have a certain age!
So, I'm not surprised.
A bit of mould...
There must be, eh?
Look, dear,
it's like the Chateau d'Yquem,
that has that slight aftertaste of mould.
What is Chateau d'Yquem? - And if it doesn't... It's a wonderful wine,
which, if it doesn't have that slight mouldy aftertaste...
it doesn't...
More than mouldy, it's rather... what’s-its-name...
That thing...
Tell me...
Moss, that's what I meant!
Anyway, this doesn't smell like moss!
Dunno!
You know what it smells like? You know the shoes that one
puts away in a space... well, in a...
Storage room a bit humid?
Ah, what a connoisseur!
They have right this...
Exactly!
Then you put them on... - You took a course in...
You put them on, and pull out the sock...
that smells like mould. - Consider that we'll have to eat it,
so avoid being too... - No, it's not said that I must eat it.
But first I want to see how it works.
Fact is, mine was coming from the street,
the water from the street,
from the door. - Yes... - Then, from the bathroom...
Yes... - ...all the sewer came out... - Yes.
The... the tenant... - The sewer...
All of it!
The tenant next to me... - It was out!
Had the gas cylinder
- where I stayed there was no direct gas -
that was floating, the fridge as well... - Yes, everything was floating!
We cried so much! - Don't tell me!
Mamma mia, I would never...
Look, I won't wish even to my worst enemy what happened to me.
Then they sent us to the Fabulous.
You too were at the Fabulous, right?
They sent me first to that hotel,
for some twenty days, something like that,
then to the Fabulous. - I was fine at the Fabulous.
Me too. - Just fine. - Only, I've been there until...
Until they sent me here. - It was a campsite, you had your own...
Your cottage.
Until May, I was there.
From December to May.
Sure that these are the ones...
What... How the heck is it called?
That company... the airline...
The ones that make people travel standing!
Ryan...
Ah, Ryanair!
That rubbish!
Well...
Think that,
when
they started the first connection lines
in...
In Europe
which was on 1900... '30's and something,
Coty made a perfume that was called "En avion".
Which is to say? On the... - "In the aeroplane".
And people travelled
sitting on wicker armchairs,
because they weighed the least.
It was beautiful!
Think how cute! So peculiar.
This is perfect!
The scream of the larvae.
Here it is!
This can be extremely helpful...
To spread the alarm.
But I have to...
Isolate it, isolate it clean.
Even in theory, a...
A probe...
That transmits the vibrations.
Because they...
Feel...
For sure...
besides the...
In short, they don't have ears like us.
They are immersed in a mass...
Okay?
And so, they feel far more...
By contact, sounds that are transmitted
within a solid body.
They don't have the same... They don't have the same human situation.
Exactly. If I manage to transmit to the mass
this cry of alarm,
to me it's important, because then I can do other things, on the one hand.
On the other, there are some sounds of recall...
So, if I
So if I... Factually, I want to achieve a push-pull, that is, on the one hand,
I want to call them,
and on the other hand, I want to terrorise them.
This is beautiful, this is the appetiser of revenge, my dear ones.
What's it saying? Can you understand?
Not quite.
Huh, Maria? You can see? - Yes.
I'm getting blind, here. - I can see well.
You see well...
Now I see!
Here you go!
See, what does it take?
You slice it.
This is for you.
Thanks. - The small one is for me.
Small?
Who divides gets the better part!
Here.
And then still, melon must be eaten this way.
Look, this way!
Like watermelon?
Tasty?
All good Italian stuff.
Lover, it's the climate!
Sun, air, everything... the soil!
They make the good stuff.
Ukraine as well is beautiful.
I told you, you worry more than me who am the affected party.
There's just no reason.
Because so you only live with concern,
in fact, if it isn't fate that I find this person, or anyone...
And then no way! Nowadays, it doesn't exist, a single person!
If it's not fate...
If it's fate that I find the man of my life when I'm 50,
it's useless that you worry. So it is written, and thus it will be.
You can buck all you want, but it won't be of any help.
Ugh, I'll have to stay close behind you?
Look...
I do not intend to proceed for another 50 years.
So, at some point,
I'll take leave from life
and, at this point,
I realise one thing:
I'll have to stay on your heels for who knows how long.
Thanks for your trust! - As sheer spirit!
Or something similar.
Look, why, instead of... - As a ghost!
Instead of speaking like a 19th century father, why don't you go to sleep?
Huh? Get going! Have you brushed your little teeth?
Almost...
The government keeps us unaware of the alien technologies of which it is aware?
I am sure that...
our government
has the tangible evidence,
answers and information about
the existence of the UFOs.
In the end...
What's this thing here? - You want it? I'll bring a uniform for you.
Where will you use it? In the ambulance?
Yes. - But can you drive? - I'm well.
Sure you're fine! - I'm well. - Gimme your hand. - I'm fine, I'm fine.
Such fine hands!
Did you sleep last night?
Really?
Are you telling lies?
Come on!
Give me a smile!
Always mending.
Luckily there's mum who mends my uniform!
Mum Minica.
Where is Minica?
You want to turn it over?
No, this can't go more than that! It's short. Let's do this way, good.
You're sleepy, right?
Wanna sleep?
My love!
Mum...
Wanna sleep?
Do you want to sleep?
Come, I'll put you to bed.
No?
You tell me what you wanna do.
What am I to do? - You tell me.
To Dad. I must go to dad.
To Dad. - To Dad? - That's what I want.
I know. - You should tell him.
I'll tell him.
What am I to do here? More...
You can't handle these buttons, Mummy. They're tough.
How you run, oh! - Here you go, here! - Yes, go easy. - Here!
What's the matter?
Are you pensive?
What thoughts do you have? Wanna tell me about it?
What will be, will be?
And oh well, of course!
Right?
Alright...
Love bean...
I'll be going now.
I'm going to work.
Come on.
Will you give me a kiss?
Shall I go without a kiss?
Yes, kisses, kisses. - Yes, a kiss.
Kisses! - Won't you give me one?
Kisses! - Then, I'll give it to you. - Kisses!
The palm tree...
Cannot defend itself.
They've attacked it to the heart.
They're hundreds
and hundreds
of mouths gnawing...
sucking...
ravaging.
It's the sound of the orgy.
It's the shameful meal!
We are not...
Sufficiently organised...
To fight...
Against such an organisation.
They speak among themselves.
Such a chatter...
Does have a meaning...
although it's a devastating meaning.
It's not different...
From the chatter of humans in restaurants.
No, my dear friends.
This meal will cost you dearly, eh!
I'll make them stick in your gullet, these palms.
It is possible that...
if the intensity is remarkable...
I'll even make them burst, eh?