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- Gomorrah: The Origins is a prequel to the Neapolitan mob series, set in 1977 Secondigliano in northern Naples where organized crime fills the void left by an absent government.
- Angelo (Francesco Pellegrino), a 20-something gangster in leather jackets and patterned silk shirts, chafes at the paltry cut the big bosses give him and schemes for more power.
- Pietro Savastano (Luca Lubrano), a mid-teen petty thief whose surname Gomorrah fans recognize as the future king of the original series, joins Angelo's crew after a rat-hunt following an ambush on Angelo's team.
- A dock heist sees Pietro and Angelo distract security guards using a football and 22 ten-year-olds, as Angelo embroils himself in a drugs operation pitting family against family and young against old.
- Imma (Tullia Venezia), Pietro's love interest, dreams of studying music at Juilliard, only to discover her comfortable family is already touched by organized crime's tentacles — 'she isn't free either.'
- The word 'freedom' recurs in dialogue as something promised to foot soldiers but never delivered except to those at the top, framing the show's political undertow beneath its period gloss.
Why it matters: For fans of the original Gomorrah, this prequel slots Pietro Savastano's origin into the 1977 Secondigliano streetscape, leaning on youthful leads and period styling — leather jackets, silk shirts, impossibly large tinted spectacles — to stand apart from standard gangster fare, while underlining that 'freedom' is promised to foot soldiers and never actually delivered.
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