The Night Before the Exams

A warm, nostalgic coming-of-age comedy about a high school student navigating romantic entanglement, academic anxiety, and unexpected mentorship during a pivotal summer in 1980s Rome.

Rome, 1989. On his last day of high school, Luca gets in trouble when he takes it all out on hated literature teacher Martinelli, only to discover he's going to be heading the examination board for his finals. During a summer of fruitless study, he falls in love with a girl he met once at a party, unaware that she's Martinelli's daughter. The latter, strangely enough, has just offered Luca to prepare with him...