Mario Scarpetta

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with day trips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

A man is living happily on an island with his family, growing bananas. When a local mobster with an eye on man's property tries to take it from him, he must go to the town for the first time to get some help.

In pre-World War II Sicily, just as the fascists come to power, two men fall in love with the same woman. The changes in their country's politics ultimately take all three on a journey across the ocean to New York City.

A communist journalist and an American liberal photographer try to cohabit with their different perspectives of love and life.

Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick.