A bankrupt restaurateur on the brink of suicide is suddenly treated with deference and kindness by a bizarre group of strangers — who welcome him in their home, no less! Truth is they have mistaken him for the tax man they're waiting for, desperate to save their floundering ostrich-breeding business.

In the summer of 1987, the 13-year-old Camilla Randone falls in love with Adelmo Franci, the boy who cleans the pool of his villa at the Argentario sea.

In the summer of 1987, the 13-year-old Camilla Randone falls in love with Adelmo Franci, the boy who cleans the pool of his villa at the Argentario sea.

In the summer of 1987, the 13-year-old Camilla Randone falls in love with Adelmo Franci, the boy who cleans the pool of his villa at the Argentario sea.

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.

The son of an atheist, authoritarian father, believed to be liberal, wants to become a priest.

When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls in his old school, finding herself adrift in an environment where eighth-graders form friendships based on social class and their parents' political affiliations.