Saturnino Farandola: Raised by monkeys, taken in by sailors, captain of a frigate. He sets off to chart unknown worlds with his loyal crew. Beneath the sea he encounters love in the person of Mysora the beautiful. On land he comes up against a mad wise man, a Machiavellian mandarin and bloodthirsty Apaches, but nothing will be able to stop his desire to explore.
A mother confronts Death as to why he has to take her young boy. And he shows her the future to explain why he need to be eliminated.
A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Independence.
