An ancestral and magical ritual is performed every year in a village lapped by the sea and the sun, on a late summer night that smells of salt and wild flowers. A memory for one night. A memory that tastes like home. What if there was someone who didn't just want to remember but relive? It should seek answers in that sea which is memory, heart, tears and vortex. This is Roberta's journey, a return home, to nostalgia, to loss. A return that is at the same time a new beginning...
Reclusive middle-aged male nurse Mauro may be in over his head when -- to save his hospital job -- he agrees to accompany 10-year-old illegal immigrant Eddi to meet his adoptive parents at the Swiss border. Along for the ride is a laconic small-time mobster named Rollo, and problems soon ensue in the form of car trouble, a Bulgarian hooker and her pimps.
Malena es la belleza más encantadora e irresistible de Castelcuto, un aburrido pueblo de la soleada costa siciliana. Es nueva en la población y estando su marido en la guerra, cada paseo que da por el pueblo se convierte en un espectáculo, acompañado por las lujuriosas miradas de los hombres de la localidad y de los resentidos cotilleos de sus envidiosas esposas. Un ejército de flacos adolescentes en bicicleta la sigue allí donde vaya, con la única intención de observar su exquisita y arquetípica belleza. Entre ellos se encuentra Renato Amoroso, un chico de trece años con mucha imaginación que lleva su deseo a unos límites inesperados de obsesiva fantasía.
