Character Relationship Map: Pericle

Characters

• Pericle (played by Riccardo Scamarcio) — protagonist

  Pericle is a thirty-five-year-old enforcer working for Don Luigi, whom he regards as family. He intimidates and assaults people on orders, but becomes a target after accidentally gravely injuring a pr...

• Don Luigi (played by Gigio Morra) — supporting

  Don Luigi is a powerful man who owns several pizzerias and employs Pericle as an enforcer. Pericle accepts his orders, gifts, and protection as signs of belonging to a family. After learning that Peri...

• Anna (played by Valentina Acca) — supporting

  Anna is a woman Pericle hopes will celebrate his birthday with him, although she is too busy to join him. Later, Pericle calls her after taking Anastasia hostage and demands fifty thousand euros in ca...

• Tata Nené (played by Lucia Ragni) — supporting

  Tata Nené is the person who gives Pericle a photograph of his mother, providing his only stated link to her. This gift connects her to the emotional void created by his near-total lack of childhood me...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Pericle → Anna (Romantic Unrequited Obsession) — Pericle seeks emotional recognition from Anna but expresses it through fixation and anger.

  Pericle hopes to celebrate his birthday with Anna, and later admits a long-standing obsession with her during their confrontation.

• Pericle → Don Luigi (Professional Enforcer And Employer) — Don Luigi employs Pericle to carry out intimidation and violent assignments.

  Pericle introduces himself as an enforcer whose job is to intimidate people on behalf of Don Luigi, who owns several pizzerias.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Pericle → Tata Nené (Social Personal Link) — Tata Nené is connected to Pericle through the photograph and his fragmented family memory.

  Tata Nené gives Pericle a photograph that becomes his only link to his mother.

Story Analysis

A violent enforcer confronts the collapse of his criminal belonging while trying to survive an organization that has made him disposable.

Plot Progression

1. The Enforcer's Identity — Pericle presents his work for Don Luigi and demonstrates the brutal methods used against a refusing business owner. His loyalty to Don Luigi resembles family belonging, but his emotional isolation is...
2. Memory And Distance — Pericle's fractured childhood memory and the photograph from Tata Nené expose his lack of a stable personal history. His hope of spending his birthday with Anna is frustrated by her absence.
3. The Fatal Mistake — Pericle attacks a woman connected to a rival criminal family after she recognizes something about his mother. Her fall and apparent death reveal that the assignment concerned a protected person.
4. Exile And Reversal — Ordered to disappear, Pericle hides with a Tunisian family and develops a fragile connection there. Learning that the woman survived pushes him to abandon passive hiding and pursue his own plan.
5. The Ransom Standoff — Pericle forces information from an elderly cleric, locates the woman, and calls Anna for ransom. The confrontation exposes his obsession with Anna and his fear that the rival family has ordered his de...