With humor and wit, Crushed Lives – Sex or Kids? takes on the probing but taboo question: what happens to our sex lives after children? New father Saverio films a documentary to get to the bottom of this matter after an uninspired sex session with his wife. Interviewing couples at various stages of parenthood, Saverio unearths the fear and anxieties that seem to universally plague his peers as they collectively experience the quiet devastation of a dying bedroom. Honing in on this seldom fully explored theme of adulthood, director Alessandro Colizzi brings us on a sincere and funny journey into life encumbered by children and the fainting sexual imagination that seems to go with it. - Vivian Yuen

Crushed Lives - Il sesso dopo i figli

Coming back from a business trip, Gabriele Manetti, a young entrepreneur, feels that his life is taking a direction that is different from what he expected. His world, all his beliefs due to his social condition, the relationships with his girlfriend and his friends do not satisfy him anymore. After his journey, he accidentally discovers he has acquired a new ability: seeing beyond appearance and foreseeing the future...