A renowned film producer is found dead in the river Tiber. The main suspects are three young aspiring screenwriters. In the course of one night in the police station, they go through their tumultuous, emotional and ironic journey in the streets of Rome, in the final throes of the glorious era of the great Italian cinema.
Alessandro is a local events singer, he abuses alcohol and plays slot machines. At a particularly unlucky day, he gets drunk, goes to a Disco, meets nice girls and are asked to buy other drugs. He goes to his home where he lives with his mother. The mother denies the money and Alessandro gets angry and turns the house upside down. The police take him to the hospital as he is too drunk. There he meets another patient, a young woman Francesca. She wants to get out to see her little son. She tries to become a close friend of Alessandro. She succeeds and Alessandro accompanies Francesca to her house. There she is told by her parents that the boy has been taken away by social services. Alessandro decides to accompany the woman also to the far-away city where the boy has been taken. And a journey of love, hate, despair and a big funny dramatic sacrifice can begin.
In the 90s, Isabella was eighteen and a star. 20 years later, she is still singing those same songs in small town bars with her son Bruno, playing guitar. It's because of him that her career stopped. At least it's what she tells herself.
A spotlight on Italian maestro Lina Wertmüller, the visionary and groundbreaking Italian writer-director who worked side by side with Federico Fellini and went on to make more than 30 films becoming the first woman ever to receive Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Film. A career tribute documenting her 50th anniversary in film enriched with interviews from many internationally renowned artists and critics.
This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the terrible Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna, the queen of cigarettes. A loyal bond is sealed when Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him orchestrate his own kidnapping. This strange and improbable alliance is a revelation for Lazzaro. A friendship so precious that it will travel in time and transport Lazzaro in search of Tancredi. His first time in the big city, Lazzaro is like a fragment of the past lost in the modern world.