Em seu nonagésimo aniversário, Marilyn Monroe recebe uma carta de uma jornalista que gostaria de entrevistá-la. A grande diva de Hollywood não se permitiu ao público por cinquenta anos, desde que, sem qualquer explicação, decidiu se aposentar para sempre das cenas. Surpreendentemente, Marilyn decide quebrar o silêncio e conceder a entrevista. O jornalista tentará decifrar o mistério de uma mulher que, no auge de seu sucesso, renunciou à fama em nome de sua liberdade, tornando-se um mito.
A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema director Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer Maria Callas. An in-depth story of this fascinating woman's life. Maraini's memories come alive through personal photographs taken on the road as well as her own Super 8 films shot almost thirty years ago.
Stefano is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not interested in promoting himself, while many of his fellow artists are far more adept at selling their persona than creating art.
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
