A luminously beautiful biopic of the celebrated eighteenth-century Italian poet, essayist and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, who created immortal verse whilst struggling with a debilitating illness.

Here, the steel worker works on a continuous cycle, twenty-four hours a day and never stops. There, by the sea, on the island of Elba there is a paradise and…

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…