Şahan is a simple, innocent young man. One day, he is falsely accused of a crime he did not commit. The prison where he is unjustly imprisoned becomes the birthplace of a new hero. Şahan, who becomes legendary for his murder story, suddenly becomes the solution to all the problems of the neighborhood. Every incident that occurs in prison is recounted in the neighborhood in an extraordinary manner. His release is just days away. The neighborhood awaits Şahan as if he were their savior. The owner of the houses and businesses in the area is forcing the people to leave the neighborhood. Their only hope for salvation is Şahan. Yet he has no idea what to do.
The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when he is run over in a perhaps enigmatic way.
When a dedicated jockey finds that the local politicians are not to be trusted and begins to feel his romance with a beautiful woman slowly slipping away, his last-ditch effort to risk it all for his trusted horse Palomo shows that sometimes animals are truly man's best friend.
In 1921 the Kwakiut'l people of Alert Bay, British Columbia, held their last secret potlatch. In 1980 at Alert Bay, the U'mista Cultural Centre (U'mista means "something of great value that has come back") opened its doors to receive and house the cultural treasures which were seized decades earlier and only then returned to the people.
Faithful adaptation of a story by Tomasi di Lampedusa on the encounter between a man and a mermaid, for the television series Ten Italian directors, ten Italian short stories , in which Gianni Amelio, Luigi Comencini, Carlo Lizzani participated among others.
Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it.
