Leaving Eden (Abbandonando Il Paradiso)

Sixty years after nuclear devastation, a few survivors cling to life in a ruined industrial zone. Ten-year-old Niko lives with his grandfather Lexi, convinced that their territory is a ‘paradise’ worth defending. Lexi indoctrinates Niko with hatred towards rival survivors beyond the railway tracks. A violent clash with a feral child triggers a brutal conflict in which the children are caught up in the adults’ power struggles. As the adults’ violence escalates, Niko realises that Lexi is not the man he thought he was. The arrival of Xeni’s family reveals that the borders are a prison and that escape threatens deadly consequences for the children.