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An assassin hides out in Italy for one last assignment.

During the Christmas celebrations, a surprising announcement takes a family by surprise and threatens to break the delicate balance that regulates the familial relationships.

Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had. Berardo dies from the tortures and Antonio can only go back to his Fontamara after signing a paper in which he declares that Berardo had killed himself.

Inspired by a true story LIKE THE WIND narrates 15 years of Armida Miserere's life, a woman who with determination and grit, but also personal suffering, was one of the first woman to become governor of prison. Armida Miserere, after suffering the loss of her loved one, found herself on the front line in the fight against crime, governing the most dangerous jail in Italy, while struggling to find the truth and to get justice. The film is conceived as long flashback that highlights the most important moments of her life in the attempt to unveil her mystery.

Two boyfriends are at home and have just finished making love, while in the city it does not speak of nothing but the serial killer whose crimes have long had shocked everyone. At some point, however, the girl, after a random-revelation, has reason to understand something that closely links the two of them to the killer that everyone talks about.

"La Mia Strada-My Road" is a feature-length documentary on ethnicity and tradition as it links the "ancient traturro" and contemporary Italian culture with its Italian-American counterpart. It's a discovery of how fragile the bonds are that connect a family from generation to generation, from country to country. "I find myself like the shepherds the (Pastore), traveling along iconic trails. These traturri serve as the umbilical cord linking my past to my present. The people I met along this trail, are an extension with those connected by threads of common origin. This compelling story crosses inter-generational lines that are faithful to the disapora of all ethnic groups who have been distanced by space and time from their native lands." Michael DiLauro, Filmmaker.