Synopsis SQUALI

MAX is nineteen years old and lives in a small town in Veneto. He has just finished high school and this is his last summer before college, the summer when you can do whatever you want.
You wait, you dream about it, you organize it with your best friends, but sometimes everything might get cancelled in the very last moment. Because the last summer is also the summer in which life is about to become yours.
You have to choose for yourself and, for the first time, you’ll feel the fear of the future.

MAX has created an app that serves as a guide for young people like him, who are still unsure which school to attend. This is a basic algorithm that he developed in his teenage room. One day, he receives an unexpected email that will completely change his life. Robert Price, the proprietor of e-Park, a computer company, is interested in copyrighting Max's program. Surprised that Price himself is interested in his project, which was originally just made for fun,  Max is invited to move to e-Park to work on the application’s expansion.

MAX is excited and terrified at the same time. He is afraid of losing his lifelong friends, of moving away from home, of "taking off" into an unknown world that could crush him. His parents support him but at the same time they insist that Max go to university.
How do you live with one foot in the teenage world and the other in the complex world of adults? Within a few weeks after arriving in Italy's small Silicon Valley, near Rome, the old Max is gone. The world he grew up in is crumbling before his eyes as he desperately tries to hold on to pieces of it. His aspirations change, the company changes, his relationship with his parents changes, and love appears unexpectedly. Everything moves too fast, and too soon.
Perhaps it’s better to slow down. As long as you don't stop moving.