Pio del Prete

During the Covid-19 lockdown, a film crew is shooting an adaptation of Camus' La Peste. Reality and fiction start to blur between each other.

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

In this fact-based drama, an ecology-minded fisherman is elected mayor of his corrupt seaside town and begins crusading against drugs and crime.