Filippo Pucillo

Рим, 1970-е годы. Молодая семья Боргетти только что переехала в новую квартиру в недавно построенном жилом комплексе. Но семья уже не так сплочена, как прежде. Клара и Феличе больше не любят друг друга, но не могут заставить себя расстаться. Клара находит убежище от одиночества в своих троих детях. Адриане, самой старшей, только что исполнилось 12 лет, и она является самым внимательным свидетелем настроения Клары и растущей напряженности между ее родителями. Адриана отвергает свое имя, свою личность, она хочет убедить всех, что она мальчик, и это упрямство доводит до предела и без того хрупкий семейный баланс.

1860 год. Накануне объединения Италии в единое королевство южную часть полуострова наводнили отряды пьемонтцев для борьбы с мятежниками, которые собирались в банды. Против новой власти восстали не только те, кто был на службе у Бурбонов, но и простые крестьяне. Но одна из банд получила более широкую известность, ведь состояла она из женщин. "Распутницы" - так называли их представители новой власти, а сами они считали себя борцами за справедливость и собственную свободу.

It's 1943 and World War II is raging in Europe. In New York, Arturo and Flora the daughter of a restaurant owner are in love, but she is promised in marriage to the son of a Mafia boss. There is a way around this, but to be able to marry Flora, Arturo needs to get permission from her father, who lives in a village in Sicily. Arturo doesn't have any money, so the only way he can get to Sicily is to enlist in the U.S. Army, which is preparing for a landing on the island.

Bloody revenge of a young tailor during the peasant revolt of Bronte, Sicily. Salvo, the land keeper, is at the vanguard of the revolt who wants to possess everything of the former baron, even something he can not have: his elegance, his style. Salvo decides not to kill Tailor in return for a beautiful tailor made cut to fit jacket. During Tailor's sewing work some tragic memories come to surface, memories of a man tortured by unknowns. That is when Tailor finally react and challenge the unrestrained anger of the campier. In an amazing duel between the two, in the bloody and wild sun of Sicily, the Tailor pieces together the most tragic events of his life, starting up his old vengeance plan.

A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.

Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy.