A scam, six strangers, a single popular apartment in Centocelle and nobody who would like to be there, but everyone who needs to stay there: so it begins The Sold Out apartment, the new fiction Rai signed by Giulio Manfredonia e Francesco Apolloniarriving in the autumn on RaiPlay. A series in eight episodes. A powerful, current dramedy, different from everything you saw on TV. A story of integration, identity e transformation.
Centocelleeast suburbs of Rome, is more than an setting. It is the beating heart of a narrative that talks about us. Of what we have become. And of what we might be. The cast is rich, various and surprising: Giorgio Pasotti, Liliana Fiorelli, Mohamed Zouaoui, Beatrice Sandri, Mimi karbal, Brayan palliyagoda, Tommy to, Stefano Ambrogi, Paolo Sassanelli (in a special participation) and the same Francesco Apolloni.
Ten hands written from Apollonia, Giovanni Cardillo, Giulio Manfredonia, Valentina Capecci e Giovanni Tancredi Brusaporcithe fiction is produced by Rai Fiction In collaboration with Aporos Group. The Sold Out apartment It is a contemporary fairy tale. But without good and bad. Only real people. With dreams, limits, contradictions. Three couples. All different. By age, religion, ethnicity, lifestyle. Forced to live in a popular building house, because of a scam.
That coexistence, imposed and accidental, becomes a human laboratory. Where every day the protagonists collide, observe themselves, transform. Nobody enters that door leaving the same.
Fiction Rai: a necessary story about today’s Italy. And the one who still struggles to see himself on TV
Each episode shows small daily clashes. Prejudices emerge. Fragility are revealed. The fears face each other. Together. There is no rhetoric. Only the truth of coexistence. Of the need to feel welcomed. And to succeed, one day, to welcome in turn. The direction of the direction is mild but precise. Writing alternates irony and depth. Without ever falling into moralism. The choice to set everything in Centocelle is not accidental. Here they cross lives that would never meet elsewhere. Here the house becomes a refuge, trap, but also a place of rebirth.
The house is the central node of the series. A house that is missing, which is lost, that is conquered. An increasingly precarious primary asset for many. But it is also a powerful metaphor. Because everyone, after all, looks for a place in the world where you can feel at home. Even with those who are different from themselves. “The Sold Out apartment” speaks of conflict but also of care. Of fatigue but also of rebirth. Of transformations that start from the bottom.
The fiction has no superheroes, nor patinated dramas. Only pure humanity. The one that passes from the condominium stairs, with a shared plate, with unexpected laugh. The result is a series that makes room in the spectator’s heart. Slowly. But in depth. Only on Raiplay. Only for those who really want to look. Without filters, nor shortcuts. Because this is not just a fiction. It is a mirror. And it may change something inside.