Roberto Latini

Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola's mother suffered from mental illness, and when young Nicola grew old enough to understand some of her stranger behavior as well as the family's other dark secrets, a few of the adults around him preferred to suggest he was disturbed like his mother, and he was encouraged to visit an asylum not far from his home. As an adult, Nicola has spent enough time around people who have a tenuous connection with reality that he has a superficial resemblance to them, and has developed a strange set of imaginary friends to go along with his eccentric real-life companions and the woman he loves from afar, Marinella.

Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa suggests that each tell the other a secret, one so shameful or shocking that were it to be made public, it would destroy that person’s life. Time passes, Pietro’s stature as a writer grows and his family settles into the comfort of a bourgeois life. But he is haunted by the possibility that Teresa may one day reappear and tear apart his world with the secret she knows.

Fin des années 1970, le Libanais est une petite frappe ambitieuse à la tête d'un gang romain. Son association avec le Froid, un autre chef de gang, va lui permettre de se lancer dans un projet d'envergure : faire main basse sur la capitale. Tandis que Terrible, un caïd du milieu qui porte bien son nom, voit d'un mauvais oeil l'arrivée de ces jeunes chiens fous, un inspecteur de police nommé Scialija se fixe comme objectif de les arrêter à tout prix.