I guess, in this case the ruins are the mess that Enzo and Mary made of their lives: Enzo, a criminal who'd been jailed on three different occasions totally 27 years, and his partner, Mary, a drug addicted Transsexual. A prison love story that endured, and after she got out she spent 10 years waiting for him. Now living in poverty and trying to eek out a living, their love is still as strong and just as touching. Sounds interesting. It is, but sadly this material only makes up about a 3rd of the documentary and the rest is padded out with intercut filler: Old film clips, I assume, of Genoa, of people, of the streets, of buildings being demolished, etc. This cinéma-vérité drama / documentary suffers terribly, as does the viewer, from the complete lack of structure.
