One day my co-writer Carmen Verde and I saw a poster hanging on the walls of a subway station: there was the picture of a young man and the caption “Missing”. We thought “what if this guy never actually disappeared but he did this on purpose to have people looking for him?”. That very moment the idea of Missing! was born.
Missing! is the story of Sebastiano, a young guy who has always been “unseen”, even in class pictures at school. One time a stout kid lifted his hand to brush away a fly from Sebastiano’s face, another time it was he who bent forward while sneezing... In the end Sebastiano was always missing in the class pictures.
Today he is the one that other people ignore and not because he is some kind of freak, but just because nobody has an interest in knowing him. Sebastiano is shy, insecure, a little anxious and comes from a small village, not a very popular type in a big city.
Missing! is a bitter-sweet comedy that wants to show how easy it is in a modern society to be left out for no evident reasons.
It is a story about the need of recognition young people have, because there is only one thing worse than dying: being ignored.