Fabrizio Mastracchi Manes

Nadia Cossa is a political prisoner who manages to escape during a transfer to a new prison. The young policewoman who was escorting her is suspended but starts investigating on her behalf and follows her trail.

The fictionalized story of the Italian national soccer team at the 1934 World Cup and focuses, in particular, on the story of Attilio Ferraris, a soccer player who was called up by the Italian national team’s head coach, Vittorio Pozzo, against the will of the fascist regime—and who repaid him with outstanding performances that culminated in the victory of the Rimet Cup.

The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins.