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Over the course of one week (from Tuesday to Sunday), the fates of ordinary people, crime, secrets and everyday life intertwine in Turin. A witty and melancholic picture of Italian society.
Marcello Clerici, obsessed with normality after a traumatic childhood and a homosexual attack, becomes a fascist bureaucrat. He marries the average Giulia, and on their "honeymoon" in Paris, he is assigned to kill a former professor, anti-fascist Quadri.
Three Thieves is a satirical novel about three thieves of different levels — from a petty thief to a prominent financial manipulator. A witty critique of society, morality, and capitalism with the subtitle "My Billionaire Uncle."
Thirteen-year-old Agostino spends the summer at the seaside with his beautiful widowed mother. When she becomes close to her lover, the boy feels rejected and joins the company of rough local boys to get revenge and grow up.
Pirandello's essayistic-reflexive work "Sun and Shadow" explores the fragility of identity and the difference between who we are and what others see, depicting a man torn between inner truth and social masks.
A free prose adaptation by Renato Caporali based on the screenplay of the Italian mini-series Sandokan (1976, directed by Sergio Sollim, starring Kabir Bedi). It is based on the novel of the same name by Emilio Salgari (I pirati della Malesia, 1896).