The Night of Confessions
ITA
ENG
P.S.: the original version is in Italian. To make it easier, I’ve already placed the English translations inside the bubbles.
This scene takes place about a week after Atem and Martina first got to know each other.
Atem and Anzu have been traveling across Italy for six months — a long sabbatical meant to help Atem truly understand the modern world.
While camping near the sea, they accidentally meet a group of locals spending the end of summer together.
Luca, the owner of the house, invites them to stay for a few days.
After about a week, Martina arrives.
She’s just gone through a breakup — but the moment she sees Atem, something clicks.
He notices her too, though he pretends not to care.
Their first exchanges are pure tension: he avoids her, she keeps teasing him, and every time he looks away… he ends up looking again.
Atem realizes that Martina is nothing like anyone he’s ever met: bold, alive, unfiltered.
He finds her impossible to ignore — and that’s exactly what makes him want her more.
But giving in would mean destroying everything he knows: Anzu, Yugi, Japan, the life he has just begun to rebuild.
So he fights it. He fights her.
But Martina is persistent. And little by little, Atem begins to lose that battle.
Then comes the first night in the kitchen.
He goes down to smoke, to calm his thoughts about her.
But she’s there — and she doesn’t want to leave him alone.
What happens next is the breaking point: a mix of instinct and anger.
Atem crosses a line, and Martina runs away.
That night, he finally realizes that his denial is turning into something darker: not control, but fear.
The next night, the thought of Martina doesn’t leave him.
When everyone’s asleep, he finds an excuse to go downstairs again — “just for a smoke.”
He’s actually hoping to see her again, alone.
But she’s not in the kitchen.
Having heard him leave (their rooms are across from each other), she quietly follows him downstairs and joins him.
They go to her room. They talk. They get closer.
It’s late, the air is heavy, and the conversation drifts dangerously close to everything unspoken.
That’s why they decide to go out to the beach — where no one can see or hear them.
That’s where this scene happens.
On the dark sand of Rimigliano Beach, they walk and tease each other — half joking, half confessing without words.
When Atem asks if she can cook, he’s already imagining a shared life, a future.
This is the first night he doesn’t run away.
He still doesn’t know how to end what he has with Anzu, or how to explain it to Yugi.
But for the first time, he’s not afraid of being his real self.
