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…

A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples’ Spanish Boroughs. Director’s plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic…