Andrea Di Casa

정신병원에서 음식을 매개로 뭉친 창의력 넘치는 남녀 한 쌍. 상상 속 식당을 현실로 옮겨 내는데. 과연 치유의 레시피도 찾을 수 있을까?

Mirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions with their single parents, are still in school and struggle with occasional odd jobs to make ends meet. Together they share dreams of women, of sex and money, of a better life to come. Then, after killing a man in a hit-and-run one night, they get involved with the local mafia and their lives change dramatically.

30여 년에 걸친 마피아 범죄의 다양한 뉴스 자료와 영화의 클립들을 모아 하나의 이야기로 재구성한 독특한 형식의 드라마. 마피아를 연기하는 배우들이 차례로 나와 자신의 사연을 들려주는 가운데 다양한 맥락을 지닌 영상들이 나레이션의 내용에 맞게 불려나온다.

After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among them. Johnny avoids to band together the red partisans (communists) and tries to be part of the azure bands (former regular soldiers). But in both cases he is deluded by the partisan bands and discovers that the partisan war is less poetic and genuine that he thought. At one point anyway the partisans free Alba from Germans. When the city falls again in German hands Johnny escape with Ettore and Pierre. But, one after another, German army and Italian fascists captures the partisans and Johnny will pass the winter alone and isolated. He then finds the way to participate to one of the last attack to occupants, in fact the war will be over two months later.

Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.