Isole di cenere

Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.

A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring attack on the port of Suda.

A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru.

An exiled Italian prostitute shields her sister from a deep-sea diver on an island volcano.