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Between Lazio, Taormina and Morocco is the story of Ettore, a young Italian soldier kidnapped in Lebanon after an act of insubordination. After several months of captivity, he is freed and finally returned to Italy. His home country waits for him with bated breath, ready to hail him as a hero. The army itself wants to present him in this capacity at the Taormina Film Festival. But the protagonist has only one wish: to disappear and leave the past behind. However, his expectations are not pandered to, and the soldier is entrusted to a TV writer whose job it is to prepare him for the show. And who knows, on stage Hector may discover a way to make peace with his past....
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IT

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.

Yvonne
Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home.