When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.
In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular power.
