Plot
Pino Daniele was many things. A singer-songwriter, a rockstar, a pop icon, but also a classmate, a sincere friend, a husband, a father, a Neapolitan for sure, but also in love with Tuscany, Rome, and Milan. A concentration of Italian-ness that however escaped stereotypes and sought oxygen in musicians from all over the world. This documentary is an attempt to tell all of this, starting from his music, his songs, his experiments, all the way to an unpublished hidden gem. The film is a vertical immersion in Pino’s life, testified in audio by the voices of those who loved him, worked with him, played with him, toured the world with him, even argued with him and then made peace. The narrative framework is a present-day line featuring Federico Vacalebre, a journalist and music critic, who sets out to search for what’s left of Pino and realizes that maybe he’s never really left. In addition to interviews and voices from those who accompanied him in his life and career, there are music videos of Pino’s greatest hits set in modern-day Naples, because the protagonists of his lyrics still walk the streets of Naples, with their imperfections and obsessions. And Pino’s songs are still able to tell their story, to tell the Naples of the present and what it will become
