Danielle Russo, a young journalist on the editorial staff of the Paris literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Littéraire, is sent to Sicily in 2000, to the elegant resort town of Taormina. She is to do some research on the famous writer Truman Capote’s stay there in 1950. Yet, when the young woman meets a local journalist who offers to help her, she is drawn deeper and deeper into an intriguing labyrinth of shocking "truths". The local reporter is investigating events related to a mysterious crime that also made the headlines in 1950. An elite set of intellectuals, regulars in Taormina, are involved: André Gide – historic guest at the Hotel Timeo - and Truman Capote, Jack Dunphy, Peggy Guggenheim, Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais.
Sicily, 1951. A young literature teacher secretly falls in love with Maria Venera, the most beautiful girl in town who lives in the decrepit palace of her grandfather, an old aristocrat who squandered his fortune.
Vincent and Mathias are two friends, in their thirties, who live off Vincent’s father. One day, during a meal where the wine and talk both flow a little too freely, Vincent’s father offers the two friends a bet. If they can survive seven days and seven nights in Paris with just seven Euros in their pocket, he will pay off all of their debts. If not, they will have to learn to fend for themselves. Confident of their abilities to survive in the jungle that is Paris, Vincent and Mathias willingly accept the offer, but soon regret doing so...
질로라모는 판에 박힌 일상을 지루하게 살아가고 있다. 뭔가 알 수 없는 그 무엇을 기다리며 거의 10년전부터 스위스의 루가노 호텔에서 그저 무미한 일상을 보내고 있는 것이다. 그의 생활은 일정한 궤도 내에서 한 치의 흐트러짐 없이 반복되는 일상이 기다리고 있을 뿐이며 그는 그것을 벗어나는 삶을 용납하지 않는다. 주변의 인위적인 인간관계나 개인 감정 따윈 안중에도 없고 그 또한 스스로 아무 감정이 없다. 아무 얘깃거리도 없는 것이다. 그러던 어느 날 그가 그의 모든 삶의 규칙을 깨고 호텔 바텐더인 소피아와 몇 마디의 대화를 나누기로 결심을 한다. 그러자 삽시간에 엄청난 변화가 밀려들어 오면서 그의 삶은 송두리째 일대 변혁을 맞게 된다.
In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry his uncle Pietro, a disgusting old man, at age 13. She bears three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she'll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive social conventions of the time.
