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Вот уже 65 лет Нино влюблен в Рину и продолжает любить, хотя ее уже нет рядом. Он все еще разговаривает с ней - за закрытыми дверями, чтобы не слышали слуги и дети. Обеспокоенная состоянием отца, дочь убеждает его поведать историю любви писателю.
Michele Casali is a middle-class professor in Fascist Italy who teaches at the same high school attended by his only daughter, Giovanna. A shy and sensitive girl, her insecurities are only magnified by Michele's overprotectiveness—reaching a point of no return.
When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance scattered across the countryside finds a new purpose in his lonely life.