Nello and Rufetto are life long friends, and also a team of criminals who dream to make the big shot and set themselves for live, being punished with bad luck.

Il grande salto

The "Ditta Poggi" shop is located in Via Del Gesù, near the Pantheon in Rome. Originally it was a shop where they sold not only paints, but also combs, hair lotions, perfumes, raisins, and cinnamon. Over time, the activities of the company shifted to focus on the paints. For many years, the management of the paint shop has been entrusted to Doemnico Mancini, called Memmo, the craft-man who Mimmo Paladino called an "alchemical traveler". Memmo started working the shop in 1962, when he was eighteen, as a sample laborer. But, in a short time, he became the preferred contact point for all customers. His clientele included many great artists like Balthus, Renato Guttuso, Jim Dine, Cy Twombly, Mario Schifano , as well as younger artists, like the painters of the "Transvanguardia", Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi and Mimmo Paladino.

Il venditore di colori

Vittorio, a man of about forty-five, a villager, sets out one morning from Via del Mandrione, on foot, to reach the Rio della Grana, the location of which he generally knows. He only knows that it is "over there", near the village of Gelsomino, "a thousand meters from the Pope's bedroom". He must meet an old friend of his, Aurelio, the son of Beddamadre, an old criminal who has been dead for years. Maybe Aurelio will give him a little job, maybe he will give him some money, maybe nothing. But, above all, Vittorio wants to see the Rio della Grana, he has heard about it from the old people of the village, it must be beautiful.