Synopsis
Naples, late 1980s. In a movie theatre, during a showing of the movie “Amore Tragico”, Michele indentifies with the story on the screen and kills his wife Gilda, who was having an affair with Michele’s best friend. Thus begins Michele’s desperate flight, which we will observe at points throughout the movie. –Naples, Spanish Quarter, today. Rosa live with her mother, Pina, and Ricky, her mother’s companion. The two women are making artificial flowers and listening to the Neapolitan songs. Caternina, Rosa’s sister, shoots and kills her great love on the day he marries another woman, Teresa. Maria Maddanlena, a beautiful call-girl, witnesses Caterina’s revenge and finds the courage to rebel: she skills a client and, after one last day of freedom, turns herself in. She starts a new life in prison. Outside a farmhouse in the country, hens scratching at the ground uncover a beautiful woman. The stories of all these characters interweave throughout the movie. Everything, every gesture, is highlighted by Neapolitan songs. In a continuous intermingling of reality and dreams, melodies offer the characters the chance to have what they don’t have, to be what they are not.