Giuliani G. De Negri

Plot Summary for Notte di San Lorenzo, La (1982) The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arrive to liberate them. (imdb)

One man cannot remarry as his wife is in an insane asylum; another returns to Italy after years in Africa to find his wife has become a nun; the Holy Church is barring the marriage of an Italian woman whose fiancé is a divorced foreigner; another woman's husband is in prison as her brother-in-law harasses her; then there is the wife who is almost killed by her own partner; and a pair of lovers who cannot divulge their relationship publicly.