Before leaving, the film on Prime Video: plot and cast

RRiccardo Maria Manera and Jenny De Nucci are the protagonists of Before leavingteen drama available on Prime Videos. To unite them is the illness: glioblastoma, a brain tumor. A ruthless diagnosis, which each of the two accepts in their own way and which becomes the expedient to live by following only their own rules.

Jenny De Nucci (Giulia) and Riccardo Maria Manera (Luca) in a scene from “Before going away”. (First Videos)

Before leavingthe plot of the movie

Luca Rossi (Riccardo Maria Manera) is an introverted boy, grappling with a not exactly idyllic period. After his mother’s death, he left Genoa due to the difficult relationship with his father and moved to Tarquinia. He works as a rider and shares an apartment with his best friend Samuel (Emanuele Turetta). Furthermorestudies Law and is concentrated on the examination of Criminal Procedure. An obstacle that he must overcome soon if he does not want to lose his scholarship.

On the sentimental front, things are no better. For some time he has been carrying on an exhausting tug-of-war with Sofia (Anna Canepa). One day he makes a delivery to a villa. To open the door is her ex-girlfriend, in the company of a boy. still dazed, he gets on the bike and, after a while, falls hitting his head on the asphalt.

Transported to the hospital, after a night under observation, he underwent a CT scan. The outcome of the exam overturns all certainties. Luca has a “glioblastoma the size of a child’s fist”, the oncologist tells him. The tumor is now innervated and there is nothing to be done. He has six months left to livemaybe a year.

The meeting between Luca and Giulia

The diagnosis is a sentence without appeal. Upset and angry, decides to live as if the disease did not exist. She will not undergo chemo or other treatments. Furthermore, he forces Samuel to keep the secret. And as the world collapses around him, in the hospital he meets Giulia (Jenny De Nucci), a girl who has been operated on for the same tumor and has recently recovered.

She invites him to the listening group for cancer patients and, little by little, a deep friendship is born. Luca is reluctant to face the disease. Giulia is sunny, positive, energetic, always ready to find one more reason to appreciate life, even when it puts a strain on it. And she does it by dancing to the tune of Desperate love by Nada, trying to involve his companions in misadventure.

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Little at a time, teaches him to look at things from a new point of view. Above all, to no longer be a control freak. Effectively, Luca has always been a victim of events. Giulia, on the other hand, takes life head on, throws herself headlong into everything, doesn’t mince words, is direct and careless of the consequences. They are different, but more compatible than it might seem at first glance.

Between a party and a walk by the sea, Giulia wins his trust and they soon become an important point of reference for each other. And Luca changes, he learns to let go and to live lightly for the first time. Even in the face of the inevitable.

Riccardo Maria Manera, protagonist of “Before going away”. (First Videos)

Before leavingthe review

Shot in 2021 in Tarquinia and directed by Massimo Cappelli, Before leaving deals with the disease in a light and romantic, but realistic way. Luca and Giulia are two guys like many others, whose lives are turned upside down by a diagnosis. Everyone reacts as best he can and believes. And at the end, one becomes the completion of the other. The tones and dialogues are reminiscent of US films that gives Love steps onwards, they replenish the genre.

It is the story of two boys, basically poles apart, that the disease brings together and, in the end, new, better people are rediscovered. Despite the drama, however, there is no pietism. The drama of fear or the awareness of not being able to overcome it is explored from different points of view, also entrusting their testimony to other characters.

In this sense, the teen drama becomes a choral tale, in which each acts according to his own character. AND Giulia with writings hanging in his room – Laugh every day, Love beyond words represents the light at the end of the tunnelwhatever you reserve.

Riccardo Maria Manera, from the set to the disease

Sometimes life plays tricks on you. How did it happen to Riccardo Maria Manera. Last year the actor has publicly revealed that he is ill. After wearing the role of Luca in fiction, she discovered that she had “a tumor-like lesion”, a «high-grade glioma, malignancy»wrote on Instagram.

«They told me that we can fight, and this relieved me a lot. I’m so scared, of course, I’ve never been so scared» he confesses. «You have to fight a strong and rare enemy. Its part of the game. In this case the game of life. You have to play, there is no alternative. So let’s play to the max with all the resources available!».

Born in 1994, Manera has acted in several films – among which Profs arrive And Neither Juliet nor Romeoand in several television series. Between these, The silence of the water, Blackout – Suspended lives And VoI get to be a rock star. In the latter he plays Eros Mazzuccato, the younger brother of the protagonist Olly, played by Valentina Bellè.

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