An advertiser who lives in Milan learns from a former teacher that his mother is dying. He leaves immediately in his car; as he drives thinks back to his childhood and the time he believed his mother had a relationship with the teacher.

In The Rose Garden

We are in 1866, in the days preceding the October 22 referendum, which, in fact, will sanction the annexation of the Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy. Through the vicissitudes of two Venetian families, the Biasin, who for generations produce and trade wine all over Europe, and the Querini, aristocrats in decadence, want to narrate in an overwhelming tone the period between the fall of Venice and its annexation to Italy . There will be loving conflicts, revelations and interlacing.