Zero, 27 years old, lives on the outskirts of Rome. He’s an illustrator, but in order to make a living he works as a French tutor. His days are boring and repetitive, but when he returns home, his critical conscience is waiting for him: an actual armadillo. When an old school friend dies, Zero is forced to deal with life and with what his generation represents.
The Armadillo's Prophecy
Zero is a 27-year-old guy who lives in the peripheral Roman suburb of Rebibbia, Tiburtina Valley. This is the land of Mammuth, acetate suits, imprisoned bodies and big hearts. Nothing’s there but nothing’s needed. Zero is an illustrator. Though not having a stable income, he copes by tutoring French, timing how long people queue for at the airport and doing illustrations for independent punk bands. His life is very repetitive. He spends his days on public transport traveling across Rome to get to his various jobs, going to see his mother and coming back home, to find his critical conscience in the form of an armadillo, in flesh and blood, or rather, plates and soft tissue. He has paradoxical conversations with his armadillo, and he updates him on what’s happening in the world. Keeping him afloat in this hard-knocks life is his childhood friend Secco. Upon hearing the news of the death of Camille, an old school friend he never had the chance to confess his love to, Zero reflects on his life and confronts his irreverent spirit about the incommunicability, doubts and uncertainties regarding his generation of outcasts.
