When high school students become disruptive, the principal assigns them to the music teacher to organize the end-of-year concert.
L’ORA ALTERNATIVA
Fiction / Coming Of Age / Drama / Comedy
L'ora Alternativa is a mosaic of stories centered around students from various backgrounds who skip religious education. They spend their time in different ways—studying in the library, using computers, hanging out at the bar, smoking in the bathroom, or causing disturbances. When the principal sees this unstructured time becoming problematic, she decides to assign them to a year-end concert, viewing it as a chance to channel their energy. The music teacher, however, is dismayed by their lack of musical experience and enthusiasm and requests more suitable students, but the principal insists they are the only option.
The series unfolds across four episodes, each presenting the same events from a different perspective. With a new main character, story, and theme in each episode, the intertwined narratives collectively reveal a universal meaning by the series' end.
III EPISODE - L'IMPERFETTO
II EPISODE - THE GOOD GIRL
Being an adult does not mean being perfect. What does it mean to be a professor and to try to be a mentor, a guide for the students? Perhaps it means also making mistakes, mistakes that who knows if they can be fixed..
The end-of-year concert is here, what has happened to Zak and Denali? What has changed in them? We will find out through the eyes of Sara, always in the background and always present. Have you noticed her? Maybe not, because her fears have prevailed but perhaps the time has come for her to make her voice heard.
Zakaria is a second-generation boy, born and raised in Rome by parents of Moroccan origin. Nothing is known about his father, and he lives with his single mother and two younger sisters. Despite having a strong intuition at school, Zakaria never applies himself and risks of being expelled because of his rebellious behaviour.
I EPISODE - ENFANT PRODIGE
Denali is a strong-willed and opinionated girl of Indian origin who is trying to find balance and her place in the world. She works, studies, helps her father in the shop, always tries to behave like a good girl, but deep inside she knows that there are many unsolved conflicts that sooner or later she will have to deal with.