Vinicio Marchioni

In a coffee shop, nine seemingly unrelated strangers meet with a mysterious man who claims to have the power to grant all their wishes, but in return they'll have to carry out any task he decides to assign them.

A couple receives an indecent proposal from their younger, more daring neighbors.

The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.

Follows a criminal gang in Rome that has a near monopoly of the city's heroin trade. Besides their internal feuding, the gang has to deal with the Camorra and Sicilian Mafia that both supply its heroin, the police led by Commissioner Scialoja and the Italian secret services.

An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.

Delia is a typical housewife in post-war Italy, whose family is in turmoil over the impending engagement of beloved first-born Marcella. The arrival of a mysterious letter, however, will ignite Delia's courage to face her abusive husband and imagine a better future.