• Part One: Six stories taken from
Cesare Pavese's
Dialoghi con Leucò. Philosophical conversations between mythological characters including
Nephele/The Cloud (
Olimpia Carlisi) and Issione/
Ixion (
Guido Lombardi), Ippòloco/
Hippolochus (
Gino Felici) and Sarpedonte/
Sarpedon (
Lori Pelosini), Edipo/
Oedipus (
Walter Pardini) and
Tiresias (
Ennio Lauricella), two hunters (
Andrea Bacci and
Lori Cavallini) discussing reincarnation of humans punished by the gods, Litierse/
Lityerses and Eracle/
Heracles (Francesco Ragusa and
Fiorangelo Pucci), and a father and son (
Dolando Bernardini and
Andrea Filippi) who are burning a fire as an annual sacrifice to the land. • Part Two: Taken from Cesare Pavese's
La luna e i falò. After WWII, the emigrant 'The Bastard' (
Mauro Monni) comes back to his village in the Langhe (northern Italy) to find that everyone he knew has died and the war has deeply changed relationships between people. ==References==