Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

The happening of a ceremonial robing of the youngest daughter as a novice in a Swabian convent screws up the values of a modern family. As if life wasn't complicated enough anyway. And how are you supposed to be happy without new clothes?

Tiffany is in her early twenties. She is a cosmetics salesperson and pleasingly plump. She's good at her job, fun-loving and self-confident. That she hasn't has her big breakthrough yet, she attributes to her figure, which doesn't conform to the prevalent ideal.When she meets a guy, falls in love, but he shies away whenever she wants to get intimate, and when her boss fires her and hires a thinner replacement, she makes a decision: no matter how, the fat has got to go...

"Poliziotto" Roberto Rossi grows his own olives. Shortly before the harvest begins, however, the small-town police officer makes a terrible discovery in his grove: the respected forensic scientist Professor Saltari is dead. Apparently he has been murdered.