Mariano Faggiani

The film recalls Orson Welles’ Italian period. “Rosabella” is the translation, proposed by the first Italian adaptation, of “Rosebud,” the object at the center of the story of Charles Foster Kane, the main character of Citizen Kane (1941), Welles’ debut film.

Son of a poor Sicilian sharecropper committing suicide (he owed half a million lire to Baron Lamia), 35-year-old Carmelo Macaluso returns to the Sicilian town, after 15 years of hard work in Germany, with a Mercedes, 100 million in his briefcase and the ambitious plan to buy the respect of the villagers ...

A middle-aged man, married with children, leaves his family to follow a hippy girl. Among the girl's acquaintances there is a boy who is expert in making moccasins and the man tries to exploit him commercially. But the attempt fails and, since he has become jealous of the girl, the man kills the boy and the girl. Then he goes back to his family.