Silvio Orlando

The murder of a rich entrepreneur forces inspector Monaco, behind a desk after the death of his wife, to go back on the streets. His own daughter Linda is arrested for possessing a gun and suspected for the case. As a policeman and as a father, he decides to take part on the investigation along with Levi, his colleague and friend. It will be a long night of mysteries and revelations.

Nanni Moretti presents a semi-autobiographical account of his experiences in fatherhood, with the story starting when his wife announces her pregnancy. Family, work and politics mingle in a charming light-hearted tale with plenty of irony and humour.

In 1950, near the Bay of Naples, young Parthenope is born in the Mediterranean Sea, just outside the crumbling castle where she will spend her childhood. She is named - by her familys rich, boorish benefactor - after the legendary Greek siren associated with the foundation of what became modern-day Naples.

Nanni Moretti ('Dear Diary') writes, directs and stars in this story of family grief and bereavement. Psychiatrist Giovanni (Moretti) lives happily with his family in a small Italian coastal town. One Sunday he is due to spend time with his son Andrea (Giuseppe Sanfelice), when he receives an anguished call from Oscar, one of his patients, and feels he must go and see him instead; however later that afternoon Andrea accidentally drowns in a diving accident. Over the following weeks, Giovanni, his wife Paola (Laura Morante), and daughter Irene (Jasmine Trinca), remain shell-shocked with grief; with Giovanni suspending his practice, and relations between himself and Paola becoming increasingly difficult. When a letter then arrives from a girl who Andrea had met the previous summer, who none of the family knew anything about, they all become curious to learn more about this person who meant so much to their departed son and brother.