Paolo Gasparini

Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul.

Aspiring writer Tommaso makes a living by penning the self-help column of a women's magazine. One day he receives a letter from a woman asking for advice on how to break up with her boyfriend: it is none other than Zoe, his girlfriend of ten years—unaware of his pseudonymous side job. Tommaso can't believe his eyes and answers her in private under his alias to learn more, discovering cracks in their relationship he didn't thought existed.

A suburban English telenovela. At her mother's funeral, Becky Hello is shocked to discover that her father has already found a new fiancé. Is it true love, or is she after the family inheritance?

Tras el 11S, un condecorado general recibe el encargo de comandar las tropas estadounidenses en Afganistán. Intereses políticos, alianzas y trampas de todo tipo acompañarán su recorrido hasta el campo de batalla. Adaptación de la novela "The Operators", una sátira sobre las operaciones militares que sucedieron a los atentados del 11 de septiembre en Nueva York y Washington.

Andrea is a handsome and cocky 38-year old man with a successful business career. Shallow, womanizing and a confirmed bachelor, his life seems to be just perfect... until the day he comes home and finds there Layla, a teenage girl who claims to be his daughter. Alongside Layla is her grandfather Enzo, a former rockstar and the father of Andrea's first fleeting and forgotten conquest. And they've come to stay!

A Senegalese boy arrives in Italy in search of fortune, with the desire to work in the fashion world. But life throws in some tragicomic situations.

En 1958, tras la muerte de Pío XII, el anciano Cardenal Angelo Roncalli, Patriarca de Venecia, viaja a Roma para participar en el cónclave que debe elegir al nuevo Papa, cónclave dominado por toda clase de maniobras políticas. En efecto, una vez en el Vaticano, Roncalli asiste atónito al enconado enfrentamiento entre las distintas facciones eclesiásticas. Durante el cónclave se van desvelando aspectos extraordinarios del pasado del viejo cardenal: su apoyo espiritual y económico a un grupo de trabajadores en huelga, cuando todavía era un joven sacerdote; su ayuda a los cristianos ortodoxos de Bulgaria, cuando estuvo destinado en ese país; sus hábiles negociaciones con el embajador nazi de Estambul para salvar un tren de prisioneros judíos, cuando era diplomático del Vaticano en Turquía; sus finas dotes diplomáticas para evitar que De Gaulle repudiase a treinta obispos que habían apoyado el régimen de Vichy.

As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the children's home run by his ma, Dr. Gioia. This year however, Christian's heart isn't in his summer fling but his lover at home, Anna, daughter of Karl's general manager Dr. Werner. Christian has a bad eye in Veronica, the woman who became Karl's much younger lover 'by travel fate', the first thing soon proved untrue. But by then, the Schneibel firm and estate have been taken over according to an elaborate conspiracy, which Christian takes on with some help from his friends.

Two friends reminisce about their last days of high school, when one of them ruined his shot at young love due to his jealousy and possessiveness.

Maria viaja a Italia con la esperanza de curar su enfermedad terminal, y allí conoce a un pianista ateo que la ayuda.

Un retrato amargo, melancólico, y al mismo tiempo cariñoso, de un grupo de amigos homosexuales que tratan de afrontar su diferencia en medio del caos de una metrópoli.