Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) is a teenage boy like any other growing up in Naples in the 1980s, which is to say he is obsessed with two things: women and soccer superstar Diego Maradona. As Fabietto grows up with, and away from, his adoring and boisterous family in a city undergoing immense turbulence, the arrival of Maradona in his hometown provides a ray of hope in a time of desperate need. Unfurling this young man’s story with elegance and empathy, Oscar®-winning writer-director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty PSIFF 2014) weaves together contemplations of rapture and mortality with the heady adrenaline and confusion that often comes with crossing the threshold from childhood innocence to precarious adulthood. Always lensed with a clean, handsome eye, Sorrentino’s semi-autobiographical, sun-kissed coming-of-age epic immortalizes the mundane, the euphoric and the tragic in a snapshot of pure cinematic poetry.