The Unredeemed

<p class=MsoNormal style=text-align:justify><span lang=EN-US style=font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Times New Romanserif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN-US><span style=font-size: 12pt;>Pietro a shy teenagerinadvertently discovers that the mayor of Borgo Alamo's son -Tommaso Pastorenicknamed the Ox - is having relations with another boy from the village. TheOx fearing that the story will leak out drowns Pietro and buys his lover's silence.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style=margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Palatino; color: rgb(0 0 0);></p><p class=MsoNormal style=text-align:justify><span lang=EN-US style=font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Times New Romanserif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN-US><span style=font-size: 12pt;>The mayor in order to saveTommaso looks for a scapegoat to keep his son out of prison so he contactsLandi - the alcoholic father of a boy who was maimed in an accident - offeringhim an enticing compensation in place of his son's freedom. Things go wrongand the Ox must serve his time in prison. Only many years later having beenreleased from jail will the Ox try to redeem himself when he meets Chiara thedaughter of another Borgo Alamo outsider. Unrecognized and abandoned by herfather and forced to live with her drug-addicted mother Chiara decides to runaway knowing full well that her mother's debts with the Albanian underworldwill have to be paid one way or another. In the unlikely and shaky bond thatis forged between the two we glimpse their only chance for redemption forthese two characters who will discover how expensive certain debts are to payoff.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>