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Alice, by contrast, isn’t happy, because something weighs heavy on her heart: her father Santo ( Adriano Giannini) died ten years earlier, murdered before her very eyes while they were on a ride at an amusement park with her mother Gabriella ( Lucia Mascino). It’s 1986 and glossy TV ads and sit-coms, in which everyone loves one another and everyone’s happy, beam out from Italian screens. Loosely based upon a true story (as narrated in Marisa Merico’s book “L’intoccabile”), Bang Bang Baby revolves around an introverted 16-year-old girl called Alice ( Arianna Becheroni) who lives with her worker mother in a small town in northern Italy. Steeped in 80s pop culture, this unique audiovisual creation born out of the mind of Andrea Di Stefano - who wrote the work alongside Valentina Gaddi and Sebastiano Melloni, and directed it under the artistic supervision of Michele Alhaique (who also directed six of the ten episodes, the remaining four alternately helmed by Margherita Ferri by Giuseppe Bonito) - is an audacious hotchpotch of genres – crime, coming-of-age tale and black comedy – adorned with a visually engrossing outer layer and a dark though colourful, dreamlike atmosphere, which shifts between humour and creepiness while depicting the viewpoint of a tormented teen who finds herself plummeting the depths of organised crime in exchange for her father’s love.

It’s onto an iconic advert for Big Babol chewing gum, which everyone forty-years-plus will easily remember (where a young cowgirl makes huge chewing gum bubbles and then pops them in rapid-fire succession), that Amazon Studios’ new original Italian series Bang Bang Baby first opens, and the tone is immediately set.