Carlo Capalbo

The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Actor turned director Luigi Lo Cascio stars as the talented architect and fervent environmentalist Michele who has moved from Palermo to his ideal city, Siena. He holds a successful job and is living out a dream experiment of functioning one year without running water or electricity. Not surprisingly, he also displays a passionate opposition to cars and driving. One evening, after being forced to borrow his boss’ car in order to collect a colleague for a work function, Michele’s life takes an unexpected turn. In the blinding rain Michele hits something he cannot identify. After leaving a note on a parked car he believes he damaged, he continues down the road only to come across a dead body a few miles down which he later discovers belongs to one of Siena’s most important luminaries. Michele immediately calls the police, but in doing so, he unwittingly brings intense suspicion on himself as his uncertainty raises more questions than he has answers for.

The entire Rienzi family eagerly awaits their summer return to the country house, where each member hopes to experience a truly special stay. Vittorio, the father—recently struck by a heart attack—and his wife Marinella dream of revitalizing their troubled marriage; their daughter Eleonora, a single mother, hopes to rekindle a romance with the local heartthrob, Antonio; and their fifteen-year-old son Matteo—who has failed three school subjects—aims to win over the beautiful young Fiorenza, whom he has thought about all winter long. As their dreams and hopes collide with reality, the Rienzi family will experience a summer that proves pivotal and transformative for their lives.