Omero Antonutti

It is the Night of San Lorenzo, the night when dreams come true. While watching shooting stars, Cecilia tells her son about a similar night in 1944, when she was six years old and the residents of San Martino, her small Tuscan town, defied their Nazi occupiers.

When Garrone, an odious architect, is beaten to death, a high society wife and her gay friend become the key suspects in the investigation.