Verona, 1970. Sergio is a nine-year-old only child. Though apparently well adjusted, he is nicknamed "the Lone Ranger" thanks to his solitary habits. His middle-class parents Anna and Paolo are going through a rough patch and unhappily debate whether to terminate Anna's unwanted pregnancy. During a long summer vacation in the country, the imaginative Sergio at first fiercely...
Flor da Baixa is an old pension with empty windows or an echo, a cross reference to an image, dreamt or seen by somebody else. Flor da Baixa is a woman who has been waiting and waited forever... is a border line, where everything has to be defined and can change.
During a scorching hot summer, a man prepares an erotic animated film. More than once, he gives a conspiratorial look at the camera that is filming him. A story develops, parallel to the story he is telling.
Bing, a Chinese girl, moves from China to Torino. Waiting for her, there is her new brother...
The relationship between Livorno and Piero Ciampi, a forgotten and disregarded artist, poet and songwriter who was always angry because anarchist and communist. The "Livorness" of the artist is told by the ones who have memory of his peculiar disenchanted irony which is perfectly summed up in one of his sentence: "I am the greatest, because I can get up to 300...
Mrs. Flo has to go back home, but it's night and she has to go through a street which has a bad reputation. Fear is not her only problem...
During the fight for the Liberation, the city of Piacenza counted 860 deaths and went through brutal massacres, but thanks to the Resistance, it obtained freedom. For this reason, in 1996, the city has been honored with the Golden Medal for Military Merit in the Resistance. The documentary follows the stages of the Liberation process through the voice of the ones who fought ...
It happens, sometimes, that a place finds you, even when you are not even looking for it, and you find out that you can't live without it. This is what must have happened to Elisa, the day when she was found by Sadurano. She got lost and she was wandering around following the road which, from Castrocaro Terme, climbs up the hills like a serpent, almost crawling.
Gardeners. Garbage collector. Assembler. Disparate stories meet at a social cooperative. The juxtaposition of events, which are only apparently not related, recreates gradually the complexity of a meeting place which is both physical and existential.
Bastiano, fifteen years old, lives in a institute with all the ones, who, like him, have nobody who can take care of them. Obsessed by strange visions of his friends and himself as old people, he convinces himself that the institute is stealing his youth and decides to leave.
