Sweet Adolescents (1977) on Netflix
In Italy in 1948, nine-year-old Ju lives with parents who have both suffered. His orphaned cousin Nenè, fifteen, comes to stay and takes him into her confidence.
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Plot summary
Ju is a nine-year-old boy in Italy in 1948, the year of the country's first free elections after the war. He takes in the troubles of the household around him. His father and his mother have both suffered emotionally, and his mother has endured ongoing physical and sexual abuse at her husband's hands. Nenè, his fifteen-year-old cousin, is orphaned and comes to live with the family. Through her the boy glimpses the adult world he has not yet entered: she lets him sleep in her bed and tells him about her growing sexuality and about her secret affair with Rodi, a local Mulatto boy.
