Maria Terranova

Dünya, ülkelerin arasındaki politik çıkmazlar sebebiyle büyük bir savaşın gölgesindedir. Bu dünyada gençliğine ulaşmaya çabalayan bir çocuk ise kasabalarına gelen, güzeller güzeli bir genç kadın olan Malena'nın etkisiyle kendi erkek kimliğini bulmak üzeredir. Malena, tüm güzelliğiyle faşist bir İtalyan kasabasını derinden etkilemektedir. Bütün kasabayı birbirine düşürecek olan genç, seksi ve dul kadın, bu kasabanın hem başlangıcı hem de sonu olmak üzeredir.

In Camarina, Sicily , several masks reminiscent of Menander's Greek theater have disappeared. The elderly archaeologist and museum director, Briano Teo Calvani, finds only thirty of them, while he is convinced that ten more were stolen during the excavation. Many years later, it will be up to his grandson Riccardino to find them, fulfilling his grandfather's dying wish. Riccardino, a naive and inexperienced young man, goes to Rome to welcome his brother Ettore back from America. He is forced to stay longer than expected and embark on daring adventures until he finds the beloved masks.

In Sicily, in a time not yet forgotten, in the heart of a small secluded town populated by cicadas, ticks and venomous snakes, that which made a man a real man was not riches or power, but his honor. He had to defend his dignity against insults and village gossip. It took little to stoke the fire once lit, and no one was immune. One of the worst humiliations a man can suffer was to have an adulterous wife. A man so disgraced would bear the mark of shame, with all eyes of the community upon him. It was said that "his horns were sticking out" for all to see.

Inspector Montalbano is an Italian television series produced and broadcast by RAI since 1999, based on the detective novels of Andrea Camilleri. The protagonist is Commissario Salvo Montalbano, and the stories are set in the imaginary town of Vigata, Sicily. In 2012 the series generated a prequel, Il giovane Montalbano.