결혼생활 3년만에 회의를 느낀 프레드와 제니퍼는 파경 직전, 군인으로 근무하다 사랑이 맺어졌던 이탈리아의 카프리로 출장을 겸한 여행을 떠난다. 그러나, 카프리에 도착한 부부는 화해의 목적은 뒤로 하고, 둘 다 옛 사랑의 그림자를 찾아나선다. 쉽게 로자와 상봉한 프레드는 아내 몰래 그녀와 열정적인 사랑을 불태운다. 한편, 어렵게 옛 애인 치로를 만난 제니퍼도 과거의 욕구불만을 그에게 해소하려 한다. 그러나 아들 듀치오가 풍토병이 난 것을 계기로 부부는 문제의 근본이 자신들에게 있다는 것을 깨닫는다.
Alfons lives with his grandparents on a Silesian village farm at the end of WWII. He adores his grandmother, who runs everything after her husband dies. But everything changes after the appearance of a traveling showman in the xenophobic village.
At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?
Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.
