A digger breaks his back night and day to let his son study and become a lawyer. When the young man becomes one, he soon forgets his humble parents, goes to New York and associates with rich people.
Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. They live in Rome, moving between accomplishments and routine, affection and something that might be fading. In search of new energy, they travel to Morocco with their lifelong friends, Anna and Paolo, and their thirteen-year-old daughter Vittoria—bright, curious, a little eccentric. Tensions soon rise.
Taşrada yaşayan, bütün çocukları kendisini terketmiş yaşlı adam yıllar sonra onları teker teker ziyaret eder. Bu arada hicbir şeyin göründüğü kadar iyi gitmediğini anlayacaktır.
Sean Durkin'in yazıp yönettiği The Nest, bir girişimci olan Rory'nin, Amerikalı eşi ve çocuklarını kendi anavatanı İngilitere'ye dönmeye ikna etmesini ve ailenin burada yeni bir başlangıç yapmaya çalıştığı sırada yaşananları anlatıyor. Rory, son derece hırslı bir girişimcidir. Amerikalı eşini ve çocuklarını banliyödeki rahat yaşamlarından ayrılarak kendi anavatanı İngiltere’ye taşınmaya ikna eder. Burada bir fırsat yakalayan Rory, eski firmasına katılır ve muhteşem bir malikane kiralar. Kısa bir süre sonra bu çekici yeni başlangıcın ve evliliklerinin altında yatan nahoş sırlar ortaya çıkacaktır.
Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.
A middle-aged man, Pietro, becomes a widower and must take care of his daughter. He will never have the time to delve into his own pain, committing himself to raising his daughter with love and dedication, in an all-encompassing relationship in which one heals the other's wounds through his own. When, after a few years, he tries to start a new life with a new partner, not everything will go as hoped: his daughter's reaction will be exaggerated and Pietro will be put to the test. He will find himself struggling between anger and paternal instinct.
Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo can't really decide until it's too late.