Diary of a Maniac

1950’lerde Romalı genç bir kadın nişanlanmak üzeredir. Bir oyuncu seçmesine katılmak üzere Cinecittà’ya gider ve sonunda kendisini keşfedeceği uzun bir gece yaşar.

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.

Margherita, kariyerinin en önemli işi olarak gördüğü bir işçi filmi üzerinde geceli gündüzlü çalışmaktadır. Sette mükemmelliyetçi bir yönemen olarak çalışan Margherita her şeyin dört dörtlük olması için elinden gelen çabayı gösterirken, bir yandan da özel hayatındaki problemlerle mücadele eder. Annesi ciddi bir rahatsızlıktan muzdariptir ve ergenlik dönemindeki kızı beklenmedik çıkışlar yapmaktadır. Tüm bunların ortasında film setine gelen ABD'li oyuncu Barry Huggins, Margherita'nın filmini iyice çıkmaza sokacaktır...

Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her "beast in the heart".

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.

Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting.