Braccialetti rossi (pronounced [brattʃaˈletti ˈrossi]; literally "Red bracelets") is an Italian television series broadcast on Rai 1 from January 26, 2014 to December 2, 2016.

Thanks to Rocco, we meet Leone, nicknamed Leo, a sixteen-year-old boy who has had his leg amputated due to a tibial tumor but who, despite everything, is a charismatic and upbeat kid who tries to fight his disease as well as possible.

In the fourth episode, Davide, who over time has become a sweeter and gentler soul, also thanks to the group, undergoes a serious heart surgery which ends up being unsuccessful, and he dies on the operating table.

Thanks to their resourcefulness and the help of a nurse, the young protagonists arrive at the church and sing the boy's favorite song,"Ogni Volta" by Vasco Rossi; all the people give a moving farewell to Davide.

After the events of the first season, the group of Braccialetti Rossi seems to have dissolved: only Leo and Rocco remained in hospital, while Cris, Vale and Toni have been discharged.

Vale, seeing his friends arguing for a misunderstanding, reports to Cris the whole truth and she, after a moment of discomfort for the news, runs from his beloved saying he intends to support him.

Vale refuses to carry out the necessary checks for fear that he will be diagnosed with a tumor once again abandoning his friends, so Leo later chases him out of the group because "a Braccialetto Rosso is not a coward".

During Leo's birthday party, the results of his and Vale's analyzes arrive: the latter is perfectly healed, while the leader's tumor is particularly serious and leaves him with very little hope of survival.

Desperate Leo surrenders to the idea of dying and decides to be released from the hospital to fulfill the last will of Nicola, being followed by Cris, Vale, Toni and Davide, but revealing his critical condition only to Nina.

Completed the mission, Leo is about to leave by canoe alone by sea waiting for death but is stopped by his friends made by Davide who cling around the leader convincing him to go back to the hospital to fight again against cancer.

The son entails to pay a high price to Cris, because he forces her to stand against her parents, who will always be against her will, unlike her sister Carola, who only changes her way of thinking and succeeds.

Leo's life, however, undergoes a profound and intense change also from this point of view, because the brain cancer will be definitively eliminated with an intervention by Dr. Lisandri, immediately after the marriage.

However, the knowledge of the Red Bracelets will slowly have a positive effect on the life of Bella, who will learn to love her boyfriend with all of herself and to deepen various friendships and relationships that only physical illness makes special and unforgettable.

Nina, the girl who appears in the second season to which he was diagnosed with breast cancer, takes a crush on a new surgeon, Dr. Pietro Baratti, a charming man but also hard-hearted.

However, he will succeed in snatching a kiss from Nina, of which he will fall madly in love, even if such a love story will have an unexpected ending: in fact, during a trip to the island of Nicola, in which Vale, Cris and Nina take part (who wanted to fly with Vale on the paraglider), the girl hit his head in an attempt to save Cris, after the girl had fallen into the water because of a stroke.

Nina, before dying, will have the opportunity to get in touch with her parents even if in a totally unexpected way, because without their knowledge, they will discover their daughter's illness only because of a stratagem (adopted by herself and by Cris) that will be unmasked by the various inconveniences and by the different circumstances of life.

Among the many news of this season, there is also the intention, by the Braccialetti Rossi, to build a radio station inside the hospital, complete with a Web site, with the aim of sharing the experiences of their life with all those who listen to them, especially all the patients and doctors of the hospital, who will be able to see in the bitterness of the disease some flash of hope capable of making life beautiful, despite the various difficulties and sufferings it entails.

Braccialetti rossi is the Italian version of the Catalan series Polseres vermelles,[1] inspired by the true story of the Spanish writer Albert Espinosa who, after suffering a cancer for ten years, managed to heal, then recounting his experience in a book.

The locations used in the second season remain unchanged, they are added only (in the flashbacks and in the scenes shot during the interventions) the amusement park Zoo safari Fasanolandia and the outside of the school of Vale, in Fasano.

Stefano Lentini and Niccolò Agliardi won the "Best Music for Fiction Award 2014" at Premio Cinearti La chioma di Berenice.

Dedicated songs were created for the teen drama, including the opening themes for the first and second season: "Braccialetti rossi – Io non ho finito" and "Watanka!