Victoria Larchenko

The Champions League Final, on 31st May 2001, in Rome. A football match unites men that have nothing in common with each other. The stadium becomes a modern Greek theatre, where five dramas touch one another, only to fade away in a few minutes. The main characters are, Simone, Alice, Gabriele, Pietro and Achille, all different types of people, of different ages, all looking for a place to find some peace and quiet, a taste of happiness and love, as well as someone to trust in. At the last stage people laugh, but there is always a bitter note to their laughter. And their laughter is louder and more satisfying the greater their adversity. Indeed, in the end, there is always a reason to go on, a final stage from which to rise.

Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an architect and she is a psychologist; they live in Rome but spend their weekends at their country home in Umbria, where they love to spend their days walking in the forests or relaxing poolside with a good book. One day, as she goes into town, Susanna sees a girl prostituting herself in the bushes on the side of the road and decides to save her from her unhappy existence, despite the enormous differences that separate their ways of life.

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The "good criminal" Arturo La Paglia, said Mister (Gabriel Garko) wants to score his last shot, the robbery of the century, and then live happily with his Anna Rosi (Asia Argento), a young prostitute who has two children Antonia (Manuela Arcuri) and Sergio (Raniero Monaco Lapio). The man, however, did not put into account the wickedness and cruelty of his accomplice, Gianni Fontana (Bruno Eyron), which, heavily in debt with loan sharks Vito Cirasola (Luigi Maria Burruano) and Bellafaccia (Brando Giorgi), wants the entire spoils of the robbery. Anna, stop by the Commissioner Mauro Malaspina (Vincent Spano) for the killing of Mr., which is responsible for the Fountain entrusts the money to Loretta Pinin (Valeria Militello), his best friend in order to guarantee a future to Antonia, and Sergio Aeneas (Francesco Testi), the son of Loretta, but Fontana is willing to do anything to get back that money, even to kill.

In Rome in the thirties lives Nito Valdi, a difficult boy just out of the reformatory, who works for a local boss together with his friend Tony. The meeting with the beautiful Carmen will take Nito's life to an unexpected turn: after the loss of his greatest friend, with the arrival of fascism Valdi approaches the Blackshirts, while he becomes Carmen's worst nightmare. Nito is obsessed with her and wants her at any cost. But Carmen is expecting a child with Giancarlo, scion of one of the most prominent families in Rome: the Fontamaras. The story of Carmen and Nito, who turns out to be a Nazi psychopath, is intertwined with that of the Fontamaras, who have just discovered that they have Jewish origins and therefore must leave Italy to avoid falling victim to those like Valdi.