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

An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in his mom’s basement. But things didn’t go as planned after…

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…