Francesco Belfiore

An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness.

Set in 1940’s and 50’s Sicily (Paternò), we follow the fortunes of Rosetta from the time she’s twelve (Larissa Volpentesta) and living with her drunken father Leone (Harvey Keitel) – he’d turned to alcohol to forget Rosetta’s mother, Vipera (Elide Melli), after she ran away with a fascist some time ago. Little Rosetta’s fortunes turn for the worse when she’s raped and made pregnant by another former fascist (Giancarlo Giannini), and Leone also dies after falling from his bicycle. She’s sent to live in a convent until the age of twenty one, and her newborn child will cruelly be adopted out by her visiting mother.

An American diplomat's wife meets an Italian vintner at an embassy soirée. He sees her as more than just her "husband's hostess". Her husband has been so focused on advancing his career that he has forgotten how to see her as a woman, which the Italian reminds her that she is.

ニューヨークとニュージャージー州を結ぶ海底トンネルで、ある日の夕刻、危険な産業廃棄物を満載したトラックに暴走車が激突し、トンネル内は一瞬にして炎に包まれる。大勢の死傷者が出る中、現場に居合わせたタクシードライバーで元EMS隊長だったラトゥーラは、閉じ込められた人々を救出すべく、現場のEMS隊の隊長と話をつけようとするが、かつてEMS隊に所属していた時期に死者を出した経緯もあるラトゥーラは相手にされない。しかし、諦めきれないラトゥーラは副隊長のフランクと相談し、その海底トンネルの換気口からの進入をこころみる。