乔治（詹姆斯•斯图尔特 James Stewart 饰）在圣诞节前准备自杀，猫和这时上帝传来旨意，猫和派天使拯救他，并让他了解到自己一生的使命——拯救那些不幸的人。乔治小时候左耳有疾，在贝德福德镇上的一家药店帮工。他很机灵，深得老板器重，同时也很招女孩喜欢。某日，老板接到爱子死亡的电报，悲痛欲绝，配错了药，幸亏乔治才化险为夷。乔治从小嫉恶如仇，尤其看不惯富人专横跋扈。长大后，乔治一表人才，准备去读大学。这时，他的父亲去世了，他子承父业，协助叔父料理公司事务。然而公司经营状况不佳，在董事会会议上面临破产。如果公司破产，小镇将会有很多家庭陷入困境。乔治力排众议，说服了董事会，但是条件是他要担任董事会秘书长。这与他的大学梦相去甚远。而且，此时他还陷入了对一个女孩的爱恋之中……
回复 :Three years after the loss of his brother Vittorio, with whom he shared his entire career, Paolo Taviani returns to the works of Luigi Pirandello, which the pair adapted in 1984 (Chaos) and 1998 (You Laugh). In keeping with the Sicilian playwright’s vision, the film is not at all what it appears to be. The title may come from a 1910 novella, but there is no trace of that book’s jealousy-riddled plot. Instead, the focus is on Pirandello himself, or rather, his ashes, which are transported from a hasty burial site in fascist Rome to a permanent resting place in Sicily, on a trek that takes us through post-war Italy and its filmed memories, as seen in newsreels, amateur films and fragments of Neorealism. Having buried the master, Leonora addio then shifts gear from road movie to film adaptation, but here it picks a different Pirandello story, namely the last one, written shortly before his death in 1936. From the farewell of the title to its return to the writer’s last words, it is hard not to read this work, so free and yet so much a part of the Taviani world, as a moving brotherly farewell which, just as in 2012’s Golden Bear winner Caesar Must Die, once again uses cinema to give voice to literature and history.
回复 :为了静下心来研究学问，老实木讷的数学家大卫•萨莫（Dustin Hoffman 达斯汀•霍夫曼 饰）协同妻子艾米（Susan George 苏珊•乔治 饰）回到位于英国乡村的老房子。艾米性感大胆的穿着引来村中男人们粗鄙的目光，而大卫看似懦弱的外表更让他们有恃无恐。某日，他们借打猎之名将大卫引出家门，随后对艾米进行轮奸，面对这种种羞辱，大卫只能强颜欢笑。某晚，低能儿尼尔斯误杀心仪的女孩，仓皇中他逃入大卫的房子。愤怒的村民要求大卫交出尼尔斯，在被拒绝之后，他们试图强行进入。愤怒的大卫忍无可忍，大开杀戒……
回复 :纳萨林（弗朗西斯科•拉瓦尔 Francisco Rabal 饰）是一名将自己的全部都奉献给了上帝的神父，他放弃了教堂里优渥的条件，心甘情愿的前往环境十分糟糕的偏僻村庄布道。然而，纳萨林的虔诚却并没有换来应有的尊敬，因为帮助了犯下了谋杀罪行的妓女安达拉（Rita Macedo 饰），纳萨林遭到了信徒的唾弃和教会的驱逐。然而，纳萨林并没有放弃信仰。安达拉的好友比阿特里兹（玛格•洛佩兹 Marga López 饰）的姐姐的孩子身患重病，请求纳萨林的祝福，奇迹发生了，孩子的疾病竟然神奇的痊愈了。就这样，安达拉和比阿特里兹成为了纳萨林的信徒。比阿特里兹的前男友平托（Noé Murayama 饰）十分嫉妒纳萨林，对他进行了无情的污蔑和中伤。
