A famous singer abandons his wife and goes to live abroad with a woman he met in a nightclub. A car accident upsets his life - he loses his job and his new love but he regains his sons and peace of mind.
La tempesta in un cranio (Tempest in a Cranium) is an anarchic, quasi-surreal Italian comedy of multiple delights in which the timorous scion of a wealthy family is gaslit by his friends in order to prove that his fears of hereditary insanity are hogwash.
When young Lucia attempts suicide by jumping from a train, she meets a man to whom she explains what has driven her to this. He, a former doctor, has his own demons and their conversation might just help both to face their future.
After the death of her adoptive mother, a shy and innocent girl becomes the maid of a rich family and her arrival disrupts the lives of the people she meets.
Paola (Tito Gobbi) is a successful, but lonely and aging opera singer in post-war Italy. His thoughts flash back to Florence in the days when he was a struggling student, and of his romance with the beautiful Claritta (Maria Mereader). Their eventual separation through a misunderstanding has...
