Carlina Torta

Samuel, a boy who lives with his mother Elena in Villa dei Laghi, an isolated manor surrounded by woods, feels trapped in the family routine, growing up seemingly protected, but unsatisfied and restless.

The apparently quiet lives of four milanese bourgeois couples become intertwined

Fugitive convict Aldo seizes a car, taking policeman Giacomo and civilian Giovanni hostages. While chased by the police all over Italy, they will eventually become friends.

Director Maurizio Nichetti is invited on TV to introduce a screening of his neo-realist classic 'The Icicle Thief'. He is horrified to discover that his black-and-white tale of life in poverty is constantly interrupted by garish color commercials, and even more horrified when a power cut in the studio causes film and commercials to mix up – a glamorous model finds herself in the arms of an unemployed pauper, while his wife finds herself in consumers' heaven. Nichetti has to break into the film to try to sort everything out.

젊은 사제 돈 줄리오는 십년동안 살던 섬을 떠나, 그의 고향인 작은 로마 교구 로 가게 된다. 하지만 성당은 운영되지 않다는 것을 알게 된다. 전 사제는 근처에서 여 자와 살면서 아들까지 있었고, 줄리오는 부모, 여동생, 옛날 친구들을 만나지만 그들은 변해 있었다. 마을사람들이 처한 어려움을 도우려고 하지만 그의 도움도 거절하고 자신 의 가족들마저도 해체되고 있었다. 줄리오는 사람들과 더 가깝게 지낼 수 있는 먼 곳으 로 떠나기로 결정한다.