Giancarlo Barbieri

Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.

1975: poet, intellectual, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is bludgeoned to death and run over with his own car in the outskirts of Rome. Charged with murder, 17-year-old hustler Pino Pelosi pleads self-defense -- after all, Pasolini was a well-known pederast. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version of events, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also murdered for another reason?

When her elderly mother is found dead under sordid circumstances, Delia returns to her native Naples for the first time in years to attend the funeral. Trying to piece together her estranged mother's secret life, she has to face the hidden memories that shaped their family history.

Португалия 1938 года. Перейра работает редактором раздела культуры в вечерней газете «Лиссабон». Идёт гражданская война в Испании, в Португалии у власти фашистский режим Салазара, но Перейру заботит только его работа: создание биографий известных писателей и перевод французских романов, он игнорирует то, что происходит вокруг него. Перейра нанимает помощником молодого антифашиста Монтейро Росси, влюблённого в прекрасную коммунистку. Когда молодые люди попадают в беду, Перейра сначала нехотя помогает им, но в конце концов ему приходится сделать окончательный выбор.

Coming back from work by night, shy watchmaker Tommaso runs over a girl with his car, luckily without serious consequences. Next day he finds her waiting for him at his door. She asks him for help, as she can't remember anything prior to the incident.

Механик Альфредо – романтичный молодой человек мечтает о хорошей жизни. Он влюбляется в избалованную топ-модель Изабеллу. Для того, чтобы покорить её сердце он решает пробиться в верхние слои общества. Ему помогает старый граф Макс. Он дает Альфредо необходимые рекомендации и свою одежду, чтобы все его приняли...

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice it. During a water polo match ahead of election day, he starts to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.

Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park. The lawyer soon discovers that in that area, once target of methane extraction, the soil is now at risk to sink, due to hydrogeological disturbance: in the meanwhile, he also digs out a mystery tied to a death dating back twenty years before.