Director’s statement:

A life destroyed by one simple consonant. Twenty one years wrongly spent in prison, because a phone tap was completely misunderstood and misinterpreted. Angelo Massaro’s story encompasses one of the main causes of miscarriages of justice in Italy: phone taps. A word spoken in dialect during a harmless morning call with his wife, became the prime incriminating factor in a murder charge – despite there being no corpse, no weapon and no motive. It was only thanks to a retrial that Massaro managed to put an end to a devastating wrongful conviction, that has left irreversible scars on his mind and heart. Dead Weight is a documentary that seamlessly narrates the crucial moments in this brutal human odyssey.