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As the son of two inmates Hyacinth was always more at home in prison than in the outside world, until he took part in a foot race that promised to change his life.

The young nun Yohanna's encounter with the underworld of child labor in Sumba restores her sense of purpose in life.

Isidoro's career as a young go-kart driver was interrupted when he began to gain so much weight he was not able to get into the seat any more. One day, his brother turns up with a job offer for him.

Calogero is in the witness protection program after having witnessed a mafia murder in Sicily. With a new identity, he is sent to Sauris. However, he soon finds out the killer he had reported started a new life there too.

Amila comes from a small village in Sri Lanka. After losing his parents, he moves to Colombo. He works as a construction worker in a Chinese building site and looks after his four siblings. His sister Inoka suffers from a congenital heart defect and the only way to save her is an urgent and expensive surgery to be performed in India. While Amila is trying to find the money he needs, he just meets the wrong person at the right time, and gets caught up in the child trafficking business.

On September 1, 1950, at the dawn of the Cold War, the Italian physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family mysteriously disappeared. This created a real political earthquake in Europe and the USA: Pontecorvo was in fact a scientist known around the world for his expertise in a very delicate area, that of nuclear research. The story of his disappearance is one of the most fascinating mysteries related to the atomic era, especially when it became known that he had crossed the Iron Curtain and moved to Soviet Union. Bruno Pontecorvo's unique life was strongly interlaced with 20th century history and with the development of particle physics. With his exceptional theoretical intuitions, which went hand in hand with his brilliant qualities as an experimental physicist, Bruno Pontecorvo is the scientist that, more than anyone else, has entered the secrets of the most elusive and enigmatic particle of our universe, the neutrino.

From a remote village in Pakistan to the prestigious colleges of Cambridge, from the vibrant atmosphere of London to Trieste. The film tells the gripping story of the life of Abdus Salam, great scientist of the twentieth century and Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979, creator of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste. Through the direct testimonies of the great protagonists of the international science, such as the Nobel Prize for Physics David Gross, Gerard 't Hooft, Steven Weinberg, the film retraces the most significant moments of one of the most creative and exciting periods in the history of physics: the dream of a unified theory of elementary particles and fundamental forces of Nature.

After the Second World War the defeated Italy has to agree terms with the victors: the whole of Istria is ceded to Yugoslavia, including the coastal towns of the Quarnero (Kvarner) and the Dalmatian province of Zara (Zadar), where the Italians had always been the majority of the population. With the redefinition of the borders, much of the Italian population of the peninsula decides to abandon their homes. Their exodus radically redraws the demographic map of the area. Out of the 32,000 inhabitants of Pula 29,000 people set off. But there are Italians who decide to stay. These are mostly those with neither the strength nor the opportunity to escape, plus the followers of the new power. They are the "wrong Italians", as Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini, writer and Istrian refugee calls them in Radio Venezia Giulia. This documentary is a journey through the lives and words of some of the most representative writers of the Italian language that still inhabit this land, trying to keep alive the Italian culture.

A young couple is about to take a flight to Paris when they find out that the man's baggage exceeds the weight limits. Something needs to be taken out of the baggage, but the man has something to hide...

A man is eating his lunch listlessly when suddenly the doorbell rings. When he opens the door he finds Himself .

The story, or, better said, the stories of those "Triestine Girls" who, at the beginning of the Fifties, left Trieste for the United States. All of them were very young, many still in their teens, all of them decided to leave to follow their dreams, a project, a man. They all placed a bet on their destiny and made an investment to build a different future for themselves. These women tell us the story of the city of Trieste and of the promised land they found during those years. The film is a private diary, describing our recent history through the voices of some of the protagonists of those times, who have been tracked down following a trail of photographs, names, acquaintances, small details. A documentary made out of archive material (records, videos, pictures) and interviews to seven of these women, each with her own story to tell: New York, Florida, California, Michigan and Virginia, through their memories, the places and people they love, their whole life. A vivid and many-voiced tale, thoughtful and delicate, at times full of irony, a glance back to history suggesting a possible encounter between past and future.

Our American Days tells the story of life in Trieste during the Allied Military Government (1945-1954). The faces and stories of those who, at the time, were kids playing baseball in the outskirts of town, of young women who found jobs mumbling a few words of English, all drenched in the backdrop of the stars and stripes and Studebakers that cruised around the city. They are the voices of the protagonists of that era, in a Trieste seen in black and white that suddenly, after the war, found itself catapulted among the colors of America and Swing.

Historic Caffè Trieste, in San Francisco, used to be the favorite hangout for beat generation artists: through the words of the artists, poets, e common people who attend the café, we are drawn in the golden age of Western counterculture.

Clely Quaiat leaves Trieste in the 1950s. She is a little girl, and with her family she embarks to Australia. She lives in Adelaide, but she is a lively, restless and curious girl, so, very soon, she decides to go, and look for those fantasies she had been dreaming of for years. She finds them in a very remote place, a place where it is prohibited to enter: the Northern Territories, aboriginal land... She decides to live there, with her two children. One day she meets Terry Yumbulul the chief's son of that aboriginal land, and for Clely a new life begins. She has been living in the island of Wigram for many years. No fresh water, nor electricity, in a house that Terry and herself built on a white sandy beach, with snakes and crocodiles always in ambush. That island becomes her real home, but at the same time Trieste is always in her heart. A Triestine woman in an aboriginal land, this is the story of Clely.