Al Bano and Romina bring to the big screen the unhappy love between the composer Franz Schubert and the Hungarian Countess Anna Rostkov. Al Bano sings the immortal ‘Ave Maria’.

The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full control over the dead…

During WWII, a widow flees Rome with her twelve-year-old daughter and goes to her native village, where a young antifascist intellectual strikes a friendship with them.