Logline
A successful defence lawyer tells his life story, from the cradle to his deathbed. He has killed, nobody ever found out, and he has no intention of repenting.
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The story
He says it on the first page: he was born bad. At fifteen months he sees a neighbour shot dead in a robbery, and he likes the pool of blood. At five he forms his first gang, at thirteen he carries a knife, at twenty-four he kills a homeless man with a stone. Then he studies law and becomes one of the best-known defence lawyers in Italy, a regular on television.
The story moves through scattered years, out of order, like notes. There is the teacher who tried to save him, the coma after a kickboxing fight that wipes his memory and then gives it all back at once, the son he fears has inherited his DNA. And at the end, a question for the audience: what is the right sentence for a bastard?
Notes
The protagonist speaks straight to the audience and asks for no sympathy. Together with The Journalist and The Clerk it can also become a three-episode miniseries.
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