Susanna Nicchiarelli

A teenaged girl's membership in the Communist Party in her Italian town causes tension in her family, especially as she roots for the USSR in its race to space versus the United States. Alienated by a passive mother and aggressive step-father, rejected by the boys in her local party except as an object of lust, she is left to confide in a brother who dreams of space but whose epilepsy means his fantasies will remain merely fantasies.

Mario Tessadori is killed in the university where he taught. Thirty years after, the grown up daughter get in contact with the child she was, through the phone of their holiday house.

The last year of singer Nico's life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons. (imdb)

Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor is Karl Marx's youngest daughter. Among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism, she takes part in the workers' battles and fights for women's rights and the abolition of child labor. In 1883 she meets Edward Aveling and her life is crushed by a passionate but tragic love story.

A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858. (imdb)