Ornella Grassi

Nine actors and their driver are taken hostage during a theatrical tour organized for Italian soldiers in countries striven by war. The kidnap has a political motive and soon turns into a reality show without the hostages knowledge. The terrorist are sending a live feed to an Italian TV station which gets broadcast 24 hrs a day, in exchange for proceeds from advertising sales. The hostages are completely isolated, surrounded by woods, by the silence and suddenly find themselves struggling with the violence of the kidnappers, their precarious hygienic conditions and with themselves.

Sienne, au début du siècle, respire à la fois la puissance du Moyen Age et la misère. A la campagne, dans le superbe domaine de son père, Pietro, treize ans retrouve Ghisola, petite fille des gardiens. Leur amitié enfantine se transforme en amour. Leur première étreinte nocturne est découverte. Ghisola est chasée. Cinq ans plus tard, Pietro rencontre Ghisola, par hasard à Sienne. Mais Ghisola, devenue femme, n'est plus tout à fait la même. Elle n'est pas celle, innocente et pure, que Pietro veut croire. Il ne peut l'imaginer autre que ce qu'il voudrait qu'elle soit...

As young accident victim lays unconscious in his hospital bed. his subconscious projects himself into a world where he is the new Messiah. There he will live in a terribly decadent and corrupt society until his fate is finally revealed...