Blackout Love on Rai 2: film plot, tonight on TV, cast, finale

THErevenge is a dish that should be served cold. Always and in any case, regardless of the consequences? The answer is entrusted to Valeria (Anna Foglietta), the protagonist of BlackoutLovebroadcast tonight at 9.20pm on Rai 2. Released in 2021 on Prime Video, the film marks Francesca Marino’s directorial debut. The cast also includes Alessandro Tedeschi, Anna Bonaiuto, Barbara ChichiarelliAlessio Praticò, Gianmarco Commare, Emmanuela Aita and Dharma Mangia Woods.

BlackoutLovethe film tonight on Rai 2: plot

Sometimes the past comes knocking again and in unexpected ways. Valeria (Anna Foglietta) is a woman in her thirties, coach of a women’s volleyball team, who had to rebuild her life after a painful breakup. She believed that Marco (Alessandro Tedeschi) was the man of her life, but a year earlier the idyll was broken. Dumped with a post-it, she found herself alone.

The disappointment she has never overcome has transformed her into a woman resistant to any stable relationship. Men are a pastime, they must be a pastime: this is his philosophy of life. Valeria professes to be free and satisfied and this is how she teaches her girls to feel.

«Did he leave you? Get lost! Don’t look for him anymore and you’ll see that he comes back. They always come back,” he repeats. His new approach to life seems to be working. And indeed one day Marco returns, but in an unconventional way. He is involved in a car accident following which he loses his memory.

Marco has lost his memory

She finds it at home and Valeria doesn’t understand if it’s a hallucination. The answer comes shortly after, when he speaks to the doctor who is treating him. «Posttraumatic amnesia»he sentences, “and he is convinced that that is his home”. Obviously Marco also thinks he is still engaged to Valeria. He doesn’t remember anything about what happened in the last year, so he doesn’t even know that they broke up. Who left her.

So what to do? Throw him out and close with the past or go back on the old tracks and help him find his memories? Valeria opts for the second solution, suggested by the doctor and his ex-mother-in-law Rosemary (Anna Bonaiuto). Welcoming Marco into a familiar, protected environment can bring him back to normality and avoid psychological damage.

The altruistic gesture actually hides an ulterior motive. This is his chance: he can finally enact his revenge. So the two go back to living together but, while he is oblivious and behaves as always, she has changed and is obsessed with the goal to be achieved: make him fall in love and then leave him without explanation. She wants him to suffer, exactly as she suffered.

Valeria’s revenge (Anna Foglietta)

Everyday life, however, is different from how he remembered it. The cracks that led to the breakup emerge day after day, but she can’t reveal the truth. Then he dedicates himself to the piano. After a series of more or less harmless pranks, plans how she will leave him. And he reveals it, albeit reluctantly, to Silvia (Barbara Chichiarelli). Silvia is the friend who held out a hand to her when Marco left her, encouraging her to move on.

One morning, after an argument, Silvia calls her and discovers that Valeria has agreed to take Marco back into the house. He warns her, because he knows that his plan could backfire on her. However, Valeria has now made up her mind. «You were wrong when you said I can’t rewrite my story. You can, you absolutely can. I just have to resistI have to make the best of a bad situation, and then I I have to conquer him and at the most beautiful moment, I take him to his mother’s country house and I always abandon him and make him suffer like shit, which by the way it already is.”

The friend defines the plan as “full of delirium of omnipotence”, but her words are of little use. Valeria is angry and the malice, born from the suffering and disappointment she felt when she found the post-it, makes her seem frighteningly lucid. «It’s the thought, it’s the idea of ​​me that must make him suffer. The difference is substantial. Subtle, but it’s there”he says.

BlackoutLovethe ending of the film

And if at the beginning of the film he declares that “unfortunately love is binary, there are those who win and there are those who lose, those who leave and those who are left”, as the story goes on it becomes “a dirty war”. A subtle strategy game that goes beyond simple victory or defeat. BlackoutLove then he delves into the reasons that led to saying goodbye and the other side of the coin emerges.

Arguments, clashes, intolerance and a clear inability to dialogue. Valeria and Marco were lost, they were no longer on the same track and among the reasons that had led to the breakup was the difference in views on becoming parents. He felt ready to have a child, she didn’t.

At one moment in the film, Marco confesses that he feels “inside a bubble”. She replies: «The important thing is that, at a certain point, you remember that all this was true». What will happen when Marco regains his memory and the lies come to light? Will they be able to find each other again or will they say goodbye forever? The answer is contained in the ending, which will reserve quite a few twists.

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