Massimo De Francovich

The secretary of the main opposition party, Enrico Oliveri, is in crisis, and the polls for the upcoming electoral competition predict his defeat. One night, after yet another protest, Oliveri vanishes without a trace. In institutional settings and party the allegations follow one other. The right-hand man of the Secretary, Andrea Bottini, and his wife Anna try to discover the reasons of his escape and the identity of a possible accomplice. Finally they turn to the twin brother of the Secretary.

In Florence, soon-to-be husband and wife Alessandro and Bea are about to postpone their wedding due to a business trip in the US.

To all appearances just an affable pizza man, Mario is in reality one of the Mafia's most vicious killers. Despite his secret occupation, he is a loving and generous man to his family, especially his brother Michael. When Mario takes Michael into his confidence and tries to get him involved in the same line of work, his younger brother refuses. The connection between the two brothers is strained as each tries to bring the other around to his way of thinking.

In a decaying forest on the Yugoslav-Italian border in the years after World War II, a stingy, old carpenter and a lonely, young chestnut seller share imaginative memories of the past as they weigh fateful decisions for the future, in this touching homage to a lost way of life.