Sergione, a 50-year-old tattoo artist weighing 260 kg, has li- ved all his life in the working-class Palermo district of Bosco Grande.
He was one of the city’s legendary punks, rebelling against the mafia culture of the 1980s.
Thirty years later, he’s still sitting outside his mother’s house, doing drugs and partying with his street friends.
Every time I return to my hometown, I go and listen to his tragi-comic anecdotes and longings for escape.
As the seasons go by, I watch Sergio deteriorate. In mor- tal danger, he goes to a specialized center for super-obese people, from which he escapes a month later.
Back in Bosco Grande, true to his punk mantra: «Live fast, die young», he once again gets bogged down in the morbid spiral of his addictions.

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
For me, making a documentary about Sergio is a way of delving into my own history and that of a Sicilian culture steeped in violent patriarchal values, which have been exploited by Mafia culture.
It’s also a way of deconstructing a system based on the virile strength of the alpha male, which is sometimes encouraged by the women of the community, in an idea of success linked to greed and individual enrichment, without any public or collective ethics.
Bosco Grande is the culmination of a reflection I began with two previous films (Apolitics Now - tragi-comedy of an election campaign - 2013, and L’ombre du parrain - 2016), on Sicilian identity and its tragi-comic universe.
With this film, I’m paying homage both to a place and to the extraordinary personality who embodies it, «a character in search of an author», as Pirandello would say, who locked himself into his role until he died.