Tainted Souls

The lives of the tenants of a lowerclass apartment building in the outskirts intersect on a backdrop of crime drug dealing confused feelings and tainted relationships in a lucid portrait of contemporary Rome Marcello a bisexual former body builder married with Chiara has an affair with the bourgeois professor Walter the ambitious Mauro and coldblooded dealer and his wife Simona get involved in the ambiguous business of the local boss Carmine to move up to the elegant and cruel circles of central Rome that profit from the public funds for the disadvantaged Valeria and her son Attilio Flaminia and her violent husband Bruno face the daily difficulties of their troubled lives The corrupted powers of urban speculation invade a suspended corner of the suburbs contaminating the lives of a group of lost soulsrevealing the desperate world of the slum and the pitiless scene of the city center as the hidden face of the same coin