Arturo loses his tech job to an algorithm he himself created. The rest of his life quickly crumbles and he ends up working as a delivery man for FUUBER, shuttling take-out orders around town while his movements are monitored and evaluated by an unreasonably strict app. His only solace comes from Stella, a hologram girlfriend also connected to a FUUBER app whose free trial is running out. Unable to afford a subscription due to the financial uncertainty of his new job, Arturo decides to take a stand...
1980년 초, 마약 공급권을 두고 이탈리아 마피아의 신구 패밀리 사이의 갈등이 고조되자 토마소 부세타는 조직생활을 청산하고 가족과 함께 브라질로 떠난다. 그러나 얼마 지나지 않아 그는 마피아의 신진세력인 콜레오네파가 자신의 동료들과 일가친척의 절반을 살해하고, 팔레르모에 두고 온 두 아들마저 실종됐다는 소식을 듣고 절망한다. 얼마 후, 토마소는 브라질 경찰에 마약 거래 혐의로 체포되고 이탈리아로 송환이 결정되자 이탈리아 사법기관에 마피아의 모든 것을 폭로하려는 위험한 결정을 하기에 이르는데.
Video version of the dramatic dystopian performance staged by Alexander Sokurov in Vicenza, on the stage of the world's oldest theater Teatro Olimpico. The plot is based on a free interpretation of the works of I. A. Brodsky, which tells about two characters doomed to life imprisonment.
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
A shepherd from the mountains of a remote Asian region travels to Southern Italy, in love with what he saw on Italian television. There, he accidentally ends up in a holiday resort, where he's treated like a guest for a whole day, thus cementing his assumption that all the opulence and kindness he saw on TV were true.
