MEL is a fiction short film set in Bolzano that deals with the topic of food delivery riders.

The plot focuses on Melek Kaya, a 23-year-old Italian-Turkish girl. Passionate about singing, Mel moves from Verona to Bolzano to study music at the conservatory. Due to the high rent of the flat she lives in, she is forced to abandon her studies to take up a job as a rider for the food delivery company ‘Quick. Here with a click”. To try to cultivate her passion anyway, Mel plays once a week at the neighbourhood bar.

After the ultimatum of her landlord, who is intent on evicting her after failing to pay several months’ rent, the short film follows Mel through the struggles that the job of a rider presents and the self-discovery of what she really wants to be.