Director Claudio Giovannesi used non-professional actors from Naples to give the film a sense of "freshness and nativity".
The story follows 15-year-old Nicola and his group of friends living in the Sanità neighborhood of Naples. La paranza dei bambini
It examines the seductive nature of "easy money" and the status that comes with high-end designer clothes and exclusive nightclub tables. La paranza dei bambini
They begin as small-time drug dealers but quickly graduate to bartering for heavy firearms like AK-47s to muscle into the territory of established Camorra clans. La paranza dei bambini