Although inspired by real people, this film is about events that never happened. These events arise from my desire to face the world I grew up in and my attempt to explain its rules. Only a few characters created these rules, and one of them is the film's main protagonist - MAXIM, the Balkan-Mediterranean Great Gatsby. Only this time, we follow the story not from the perspective of someone who enters that world but from the angle of Gatsby himself. He is a person who believes that his power comes from having information about other people. A stroke leaves him vulnerable and at the mercy of the people around him. Every night when he is left alone, he punishes himself by standing on the edge of the roof of his hotel, fantasising about his death, which he will never carry out. His loneliness comes from emotional immaturity and a manipulative trait in which all the relationships he cultivates are essentially proving to himself that he is still an important figure. His weakness is the inability to separate authentic relationships from selfish ones. Powerful characters with a mysterious past, through whose life an image of a society is formed and its changes are followed, is a feature of Italian cinema. During my studies, I analysed in detail how a rich film language can be extracted from realism and made, which, although based on reality, can be lavish and dreamy. The directors who formed me and with whose poetics I developed do certainly leave a mark in my debut film. The qualities of their films can be a good reference for my author team to bring my intentions better and closer to them. Highly stylised social critique by Bernardo Bertolucci, macho men in existential crises by Paolo Sorrentino, psychologically nuanced criminal milieu by Martin Scorsese, and people imprisoned in fortresses of their choice by Sofia Coppola - all together provide a good starting point for visually enhancing my project.