Fiore (2016)

In a juvenile detention center where boys and girls are not allowed to meet, Daphne, a young detainee who committed a robbery with a girl her own age, falls in love with Josh. A relationship begins between them, made up of fleeting glances and secret letters passed from one cell to another. Yet an underlying distress emerges, which, along with the strict observance of prison rules, prevents Daphne from truly imagining and planning a better future. Indeed, the girl sees her future as somehow obstructed—though her reactions to this vary—by her father’s precarious situation as a former inmate on probation, and by his new relationship with a Romanian woman. She is deeply religious and holds conservative views that strongly clash with Daphne’s; she also has a young son from a previous relationship, with whom Daphne never really interacts. The boy’s First Communion celebration is the long-awaited opportunity for a leave from the institution, and for Daphne it is also a chance to reconcile herself with a fate that seemed already written.