ROME – After ‘Lo Spietato’, the actor Riccardo Scamarcio and the director Renato De Maria returned to work together in the film ‘Vanished in the Night ‘ (a Picomedia production) starring Scamarcio and Annabelle Wallis. From July 11th on Netflix, the film tells of a mysterious disappearance in the middle of the night on the outskirts of Bari and a couple in crisis, Pietro and Elena. The two begin a desperate search to track down their children, taking drastic measures to save them. Also in the cast are Massimiliano Gallo(Nicola), Gaia Coletti (Bianca) and Lorenzo Ferrante (Giovanni).
Elena is an American psychiatrist who came to live in Italy, in Puglia, for the love of Pietro, a man with a stormy past. They got married, had two children, cultivating the dream of restoring a farm and turning it into a hotel. But things didn’t work out, and soon Pietro and Elena separated. One night, the children vanish into thin air while they are with Pietro at the farm. He looks for them everywhere and in the end, in desperation, he is forced to warn Elena, with whom he ends up in a dispute over custody of the children. When Elena reaches him, she attacks him and blames him, furious. Until they receive a phone call: their children have been kidnapped, to get them back they will have to pay 150,000 euros in cash within 36 hours. For Elena it’s all elementary: they are the loan sharks with whom Pietro got into debt to try in vain to restore the farm. They are dangerous people, capable of anything: they have to do as they say. Pietro is forced to turn to Nicola, an old criminal friend, who offers him a deal: he will give him the money he needs, but in exchange he wants him to leave that night for an island between Puglia and Greece, just three hours from there, get some drugs from some of his business “partners” and bring them back. He always needs “clean” boats for his trade, and Pietro’s fits the bill. Pietro agrees, he embarks on a crazy adventure in the middle of the sea from which he miraculously emerges alive at dawn in the morning. But when he returns to Bari he finds a totally different situation from the one he left just a few hours earlier: nothing seems to correspond to reality anymore, people behave absurdly, Elena in the lead. Pietro seems to be going crazy: what is happening? But he has no time to think: time passes and this crazy mystery must be solved quickly.