Roberto Marini

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.

From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.

1989. A recently laid off steel mill worker in the little town of Piombino starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor.