In this contemplative homage to an important part of Damascene industrial history, the filmmaker revives the old steam engine plant of Damascus, once a symbol of optimistic belief in development, but now a deserted and desolate place.
A benevolent landlord helps an ambitious girl who aspires to become a doctor. While the two spend time with each other, they fall in love and get married.
Antonio is a seventy-year-old gentleman, a former strict and impeccable judge. Having refused to accept his daughter's hospitality, he found himself in a strange place where, after completing an intensive course on the latest technologies of modern society, he will have to be adopted by families who request it.
"Regina Coeli" is the nickname with which inmates call Regina, voluntary assistant in Rome's Rebibbia jail, very involved in solidarity but lonely in his private life.
12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna.
During a family reunion in 2000, guests decide to read out laud their "Where I See Myself in 10 Years" wish lists which they wrote down during their 1990 family reunion.
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