Michele Cesari

A macho type man becomes entangled with an independent-minded girl.

Eight people unknowingly form a circle – either through a friendship, attempted love, or brief sexual encounter. The tighter their circle gets, the more the spokes begin to twist and to bend.

Based on the novel "Il quaderno nero dell'amore" of Marilù Manzini, published by Rizzoli, through a diary written in a notebook, it tells the most intimate sexual secrets of three young people in search of their identity.

More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and conspiracies. So, instead of helping in the training of their children, they become insurmountable obstacles to their growth. Presumptuously they think: "We know better than anyone else our children and we know what they are worth and how and what you have to teach."

Pietro, a wealthy construction engineer who’s a widow, remarried with Cristina. Francesca has an affair with Pietro and Cristina catches them, she decides to leave Pietro and goes back to live with her mother. Pietro has two children: Marco from the first wife who’s now a cocaine addict; and Martina who’s still lives with him. Pietro is always out and busy at work and he’s not giving attention to his teenage daughter. Martina due to the relationship with her father falls as well into drug addiction. When Pietro realizes he’s about to lose his daughter becomes closer to her and understands that nothing is more important than the love of Martina.

The entire Rienzi family eagerly awaits their summer return to the country house, where each member hopes to experience a truly special stay. Vittorio, the father—recently struck by a heart attack—and his wife Marinella dream of revitalizing their troubled marriage; their daughter Eleonora, a single mother, hopes to rekindle a romance with the local heartthrob, Antonio; and their fifteen-year-old son Matteo—who has failed three school subjects—aims to win over the beautiful young Fiorenza, whom he has thought about all winter long. As their dreams and hopes collide with reality, the Rienzi family will experience a summer that proves pivotal and transformative for their lives.

Follow Teresa Iorio, a young woman who leaves her rural Sicilian hometown for Milan to find work--and much more--at a newly opened department store: The Ladies' Paradise.

Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.

Il mammo is an Italian television series.