The tormented life of Dante Alighieri, from solitary childhood to death in exile, seen through Giovanni Boccaccio’s journey to rehabilitate his memory.
Giacomo Puccini, the son of a Tuscan organist, achieves world-wide recognition as a composer of operas and dies from throat cancer in the middle of an artistic crisis, at the age of just sixty-six.
Attilio is a 50-year-old man who works as a gravedigger in a hospital. Deeply in love with a nurse, to whom he writes letters every day that he can never deliver.
