Enrico Elia Inserra

After the breakdown of the old government, and with it the First Republic, Italy changed for good in 1994. Spinster Leo is all too aware of this. He pushed hard to see Berlusconi get elected Prime Minister. He knows it's not easy to win power, but holding on to it verges on the impossible. By the same token, it seems equally impossible for populist politician Pietro to change. Even now that he has an office at the Prime Minister's premises in Rome, he still can't cast off his old bad habits. Nor can he forget the only woman he has ever loved. A former TV starlet now turned politician and Congresswoman, Veronica has to decide who the man of her life is going to be. She has realized she no longer wants to be just a woman on the arm of powerful men. It is the start of her own push for power.

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The story of the kidnapping of young Farouk Kassam, which took place on the Costa Smeralda on January 15, 1992. A foreign family, long-established on the island—a father, a mother, and two children—lived what might have seemed like a paradise on earth, until one day, violence erupted, changing their lives forever. Seven-year-old Farouk was abducted from his home by a group of criminals, right before the horrified and helpless eyes of his parents and little sister. Thus began a nightmare that would last 177 days, holding all of Italy in suspense—a historic event that would even go so far as to put the State itself under immense strain. Faced with a harrowing ordeal like the kidnapping of a child, the individuals involved discovered within themselves resources, limitations, emotions, and instincts they never knew they possessed—while their closest bonds and firmest certainties were put to the ultimate test.

Sophie is a twenty-year-old American who has lived her life in isolation, cut off from the world. While on vacation in Palermo with her sister, she meets Giulio and his group of Sicilian friends during her final 24 hours before returning to California. Eager to break free from her sheltered past, Sophie embarks on a whirlwind romance with Giulio.

Angela is a dedicated and sensitive carer. She is a widow. Her husband, as many other workers in the area, died from asbestos-related diseases. When the man responsible for the many deaths, now crippled, is hospitalised, she accepts his son’s offer to become his caregiver, hoping to take her revenge.

After the breakdown of the old government, and with it the First Republic, Italy changed for good in 1994. Spinster Leo is all too aware of this. He pushed hard to see Berlusconi get elected Prime Minister. He knows it's not easy to win power, but holding on to it verges on the impossible. By the same token, it seems equally impossible for populist politician Pietro to change. Even now that he has an office at the Prime Minister's premises in Rome, he still can't cast off his old bad habits. Nor can he forget the only woman he has ever loved. A former TV starlet now turned politician and Congresswoman, Veronica has to decide who the man of her life is going to be. She has realized she no longer wants to be just a woman on the arm of powerful men. It is the start of her own push for power.

No synopsis available yet.

The story of the kidnapping of young Farouk Kassam, which took place on the Costa Smeralda on January 15, 1992. A foreign family, long-established on the island—a father, a mother, and two children—lived what might have seemed like a paradise on earth, until one day, violence erupted, changing their lives forever. Seven-year-old Farouk was abducted from his home by a group of criminals, right before the horrified and helpless eyes of his parents and little sister. Thus began a nightmare that would last 177 days, holding all of Italy in suspense—a historic event that would even go so far as to put the State itself under immense strain. Faced with a harrowing ordeal like the kidnapping of a child, the individuals involved discovered within themselves resources, limitations, emotions, and instincts they never knew they possessed—while their closest bonds and firmest certainties were put to the ultimate test.