Ennio, Ettore and Gianfranco are in prison for having committed very serious crimes, so serious that they have to serve a life sentence, but through a process of “restorative justice”, they seek forgiveness from their victims and to repair the damage they have caused : everyone has the right to respect, to a second chance, and not to suffer social retaliation, so that resentment and any type of violence do not have the last word in a civil society.

During the development of his third feature film, Palmieri encountered experiences of restorative justice, a branch that imagines and practices a revolution with respect to the concepts of punishment and justice, as they are normally understood: the crime as a starting point for an action, indeed a reparative one, which becomes aware of the incident and the evil that resulted from it, to expunge it from society day by day, person by person.

L’Agnello ha vinto il Premio come Miglior Film al Festival Annecy Cinéma Italien 2020, oltre al Premio della Giuria Giovani e al Premio del Pubblico, e il Premio Suso Cecchi D’Amico, destinato ogni anno alla Miglior Sceneggiatura Italiana con protagonista al femminile; è stato premiato ad Alice nella città – selezione ufficiale 2019 (Menzione d’onore a Nora Stassi come Miglior Talento Emergente), ed selezionato ai festival Moskow IFF, Prague IFF, Istambul IFF, Cinemed Montpellier, CPH Buster, Cinemagic UK, Denver IFF, Lucas International Children’s Film Festival (…e non è finita qui!).