Filippo Tarantino

In 1950s Sicily, con artist Joe Moretti does screen tests for the big studios, accepting money or favours for his efforts. A young illiterate novitiate named Beata desperately wants to change her life and falls for him; belatedly, he realizes his feelings for her. However, their love affair is doomed when he's arrested.

From the homonymous novel. Rejecting the consumer society, a young man abandons the profession of architect and retires to live in a South Island.