Gino De Luca

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following fifty years.