An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in his mom’s basement. But things didn’t go as planned after…

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini’s republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable…