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Alberto is the youngest and still lives with his parents; he almost immediately runs out of money and wanders aimlessly for a while, not daring to set foot home to escape arrest. When in the end, with no prospects of any kind, he decides to go home, he finds the police waiting for him. Desperate, he
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Guido is the most marginalized of the group, the only one devoid of emotional ties: from a drawing professor he became a walking portraitist and then turned to crime. He has the bulk of the booty with him, with which he would like to flee to
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