Vincenzo Aronica

Le psychiatre fraîchement diplômé David doit donner son avis sur la jeune Maddalena, jugée pour le meurtre d'un chasseur. Elle prétend qu'elle est une sorcière et a agi au nom du diable.

One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royals as they adapt to their new lives. The former king has recognized the political finality of his deposition, but his queen has taken to traveling in men's clothing all over Italy trying to foment an uprising to restore them to the throne. She is also frantic to have a baby, an heir, but the king has become celibate as a kind of homage to his beloved mother; he spends all his time lobbying the Vatican to get her declared a saint.

Le film raconte la vie de Piera, de la naissance à l'âge adulte: Eugenia et Laurent ont une fille, Piera. L'état mental de la mère n'est pas au mieux et se dégrade avec le temps et même son père traverse une période difficile dans un hôpital psychiatrique. Piera a commencé à travailler comme couturière, mais elle aura plus de succès dans le théâtre.

Italy, early 80's. A political terrorist is being transferred northward from Sicily for a conjugal visit; during the journey, a police captain tries to make him cooperate.