Giacomo Rotili

1912. Giovanni Pascoli has died, and a train leaves from Bologna for his funeral. On board, students, officials, and family, including his sister Maria, called Mariù. It is a journey of national mourning, with people from all social classes paying homage to the poet. In Mariù’s recollections, we learn how Giovanni lived: his father’s assassination, his poverty as a youth, his political activism and fraught ties to Giosuè Carducci.

Felicia is a young rider who suffers from asthma. In the few free moments that her hard work allows her, she has to take care of her father who is no longer independent. During a delivery like many others, Felicia is involved in a cynical experiment that highlights the bitter contradiction of an economic system that leaves the vain hope of getting rich as the only possibility.