Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.
Concetta (as Shara Di Nepi)
Uma cantora de ópera é acompanhada por seu filho durante uma turnê na Itália. Ao descobrir que ele é viciado em heroína, ela tenta salvá-lo e os dois se envolvem em uma relação incestuosa que pode revelar o segredo do verdadeiro pai do menino.
Rosario
The Revolutionary Girl
A mute mother stands by idly as her young children radicalise as a result of a society that thrives on conflict and manipulation. As she is drawn to a group of political activists, her absence allows her children to become increasingly extreme in their behaviour and lethal games they play.