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IO, UN CAPITANO
After retiring from professional football, Andrea Pierini discovers he may have lost his entire life savings, all managed by his mother, who acted as both parent and financial manager. What should be a quiet ending becomes a ruthless reckoning about trust, family, and the true cost of success.
Logline
A retired football captain investigates his missing fortune and is forced to confront the person who “protected” him most: his mother.
Tone
Intimate, tense, and emotionally precise. No melodrama. The conflict is quiet, personal, and devastating.
Project story
Io, un capitano begins where most sports stories end: after the applause. Andrea Pierini returns home expecting peace, but the silence reveals a structural truth about many athletes: the career was public, the money was private, and the control was often elsewhere. His mother managed everything, mixing love and power until they became indistinguishable. The film is not about football. Football is the machine that created the dependency. The story is about adulthood delayed, about the illusion of protection, and about the violence of discovering that trust can be a financial contract. Andrea’s investigation becomes a moral labyrinth: if your mother betrayed you “for your own good”, what do you do with that? The climax is not revenge. It’s clarity.