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Really dark noir. Brutal, perverse at times, and unrelenting. The story opens with a jewelry heist gone bad, hostages, and the murder of a child and his mother. Roll it forward 15 years, Raffaello Begiatto, the shooter, is in prison, dying of cancer. On the outside, the husband and father of the mother and child, Silvano Contin, lives a half life of TV, work, and bed. Beggiatto, since he's terminal, applies to be released, hoping that he can recover his portion of the stolen loot, and spend his
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