The title basically means I can quit whenever I want.
It starts at, in Italy, a substance to be considered illegal drugs must be in the list of illegal molecules of the Ministry of Health. There’s like 200 molecules in there, but if a substance is not there then it is legal to make it, use it and sell it. Pietro Zinni is a neurobiologist, with masters in computational neurosciences and molecular dynamics… something like that. And he works at a university doing research. He’s really hoping for a long term contract, he has money problems. He also gives private lessons to four kids who don’t respect him and don’t pay him. They take advantage of him.
There are no funds for everyone at the university, so Pietro didn’t get it, the older professor working with him doesn’t even understand his revolutionary research and couldn’t answer any question. So not only Pietro doesn’t get a long term contract , he won’t have his annual one renewed. He tells his girlfriend that he got the contract and at least 1500 a month instead of 500.
His friends Giorgio and Mattia are famous latinists but work the night shift at a gas station. Mattia even speaks cingalese, knowing sanskrit he finds it easy to learn languages.
Pietro sees one of the kids that owe him money and realises the truth. This kid Maurizio had told him his parents had died and he had to work as a waiter to pay for school, but it turns out he drives a Range Rover and spends the nights fooling around, not working. Also, his father is not dead and is also rather wealthy. Pietro follows him to a discoteque and accepts his offer of a drink only to find out when he comes back to himself in the restroom that there was drugs in it. He learns from Maurizio that those drug pills cost 50 € each one, and he gets his idea. Alberto is a first class chemist who washes the dishes in a chinese restaurant. Pietro wants to create a molecule that is not on the list of illegal ones and wants Alberto to actually make it. Andrea is a great and published anthropologist who pretends to be almost illiterate to find manual work. He will hell Pietro’s gang to blend in. They’d also need someone used to working at nights so he calls Giorgio and Mattia. Artueo is an expert o ancient Rome, he has a degree on classical archeology specialized in archeological cartography. He knows Rome like nobody else, but he’s actually needed because he has a van and access to all roads, even limited ones. For the economical aspect of the plan, they call Bartolomeo who loses money playing cards and goes on by asking for money from his gipsy girlfriend.
Pietro puts them all together and explains his idea to create the best pill out there; Bartolomeo provides the initial funding, then they need the substances that they can extract from common products, so they buy lots of different things, like bath and fish tanks products. Then they have to actually make it, so they break into the university lab. Their first test at a disco club, Alberto moves around the dancing people to question them about the pill. 200€ each pill, they sold out in 40 minutes.
They make many more pills and go many more places. They make lots of money.
Despite Pietro initial assertion that they should all mantain the same lifestyle as before, they all go over themselves. They start eating fish, living in attics, dressing all smart, giving parties…
His firlfriend Giulia gets more and more frustrated seeing how weird he acts, and also because she works helping people recovering from addiction, and this new pill got to many of them.
Alberto is too curious so he tries one himself as an experiment.
The drugs market in those parts was always Murena’s business, and now they’re expanding he’s getting pissed off.
The researchers band moves on to the parties of the wealthy people. Alberto keeps taking the drugs, he and Pietro hook up with prostitutes and Pietro doesn’t get home until 2am. Of course Giulia, worried, contacted the university, so she learned the truth and now she wants to know how can they afford all the stuff that Pietro bought. They have a fight and he confesses selling drugs. She was already furious before, when she thought he got himself a lover who bought him things, but this is beyond that. She’s pregnant, and with her work she sees everyday the damage drugs have on people. She throws him out.
Everyone in the band is gone out of their minds.
Pietro tries to patch things up with Giulia but this is her condition: you said you can quit whenever you want, then quit. His “it’s complicated” is not enough for her.
Pietro is approached by Murena who wants them to work for him. To convince Pietro, he got Giulia.
Alberto crashed his new car and the police found lots of pills and lots of money.
To free Giulia, they rob a dugstore and Mattia panics and shoots the guy. They do what they can for him, and Pietro also gives him something to forget.
Pietro still pland to get Giulia back by making the exchange at Bartolomeo’s wedding because the Sinti gipsies afe just as dangerous.
Murena is a naval engineer and like the others lost any place at the univerrsity.
End of story: Alberto told the police everything but Paprika can only say Niet and can’t help him. Pietro goes to the police to make a deal: he turns himself in, and gives them Murena, and they let the other members of the gang go free.
Only thing is, since after the shooting accident they had nothing to make the pills with, they made fake ones out of sugar, and to getMurena arrested they put the injured pharmacist in his car truck.
Now Bartolomeo is married, Giorgio and Mattia must work to repay their debts, Alberto is in rehab, Andrea found a non-paid job… and Pietro goes to jail.
A year and a half later Pietro is a teacher inside the prison. Giulia takes the baby to see him, and is worried he might get out for good conduct. The both of them hope Pietro will stay in prison for as long as possible, because he gets paid for his teacher job. So he plans to take part in a fight hoping he’ll get at least another year…
Pietro Zinni . Edoardo Leo
Giulia . Valeria Solarino
Mattia . Valerio Aprea
Arturo . Paolo Calabresi
Bartolomeo . Libero De Rienzo
Alberto . Stefano Fresi
Giorgio . Lorenzo Lavia (did they really write Giorgo? lol)
Andrea . Pietro Sermonti
Murena . Neri Marcoré
Assessore . Riccardo Rovere
Agente Coletti . Sergio del Prete
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