Set in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.

Against a heavy cloak of secrecy, a 12-year-old girl smitten with her handsome classmate ventures deeper and deeper into the enchanted Sicilian forests to find him, unaware of just how thick is the mystery behind his strange disappearance.

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates), a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

During a train journey, to please his bored daughter, a father tells her three stories. In the first a man discovers that...

A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.

On an empty road, an old man is walking with his son. They meet a crow that can speak. They are changed into monks and Saint Francois sent them to preach for hawks and sparrows. A reflexion about idealism.

An Italian film based on Beppe Fenoglio's novel "Il partigiano Johnny" with Rupert Graves. The film takes place during the Autumn 1944. (1991)