Marta
According to Interpol, over ten thousand refugees of minors without parental care are wandering today in Europe, half of which are on Italian roads. "Despite the Fog" is a movie story about one of them. In short: Ali-Musa Sarhan, a refugee whose parents drowned while traveling by rubber boat on the Italian coast in search of a better life, is accepted by family, husband and wife who have lost a child. They are trying to find solace in little Arab and a sort of replacement for their early deceased son, Mark. Valeria (Donatella Finokjaro) and Paolo (Giorgio Tirabasi) are increasingly confronted with resistance from the environment and their own family, who do not accept their decision to keep Muhammad - It is also a story of a world that is increasingly sinking into xenophobic fog.
In the space of twenty-four hours the life of Anita, single and brilliant manager in career, is blown away by a hurricane of trouble.
Tosca
The marriage of an actor and a freelance film editor breaks up unexpectedly in front of two filmmakers' camera.
Actress – Housewife
Марта недавно защитила блестящую диссертацию по философии и с энтузиазмом бросилась искать работу. Но все собеседования, на которые исправно ходит Марта, заканчиваются многообещающим «мы вам позвоним», однако время идет, а никто не рвется предложить девушке работу. Но стоило ей совсем уж отчаяться, как судьба подбрасывает неожиданный подарок: случайно встреченная в метро девочка уговаривает свою маму пригласить Марту работать няней. Вместо этого «мама» предлагает Марте подработать в центре телефонного обслуживания.
Francesca
A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.
(segment "La stirpe di Iana")
Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.
