The Reunion 1963

In Milan, Alberto Francisco Rabal and Sandrino Riccardo Garrone meet by chance on a crowded street after years apart, and their reunion rekindles the easy warmth and shared jokes of a youth spent in each other’s company.

Sandrino offers to track down the others — Cesarino Walter Chiari and the rest — to spend an evening like in the good old days.

Cesarino, once the group’s spark who steered its social life, now runs a small suburban cinema for his uncle, a modest job that keeps a thread of connection to old friends even as money is tight.

That night unfolds through telephone pranks, along-the-road glances, and meetings with a gallery of quirky characters, as the city’s streets echo with memories.

At dawn, Cesarino decides to locate Lara Jacqueline Pierreux, the woman who had joined the group previously but left to a very different life; she had been arrested for a diamond robbery, spent two years in jail, and has since become a street worker.

Cesarino proclaims his enduring love, but when Lara sees the friends watching them kiss, she slips away and returns to her regular clientele.

In a frantic chase, Cesarino pursues a moving truck, ending in a fistfight with two truckers and leaving him battered and exhausted.

Lara remains with the truckers, while Cesarino is cared for by his friends, and as the night ends he leaves the group in a somber mood; Alberto promises to ring him up, but that gesture feels unreal to Cesarino, who suspects the call may never come.