Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi (Elio Germano) writes his first poems in his father's library in 19th-century Italy, a young man whose illness and isolation press in from every side. Mario Martone follows him from the house of Monaldo (Massimo Popolizio) out into a wider Italy, where friends like Pietro Giordani (Valerio Binasco) and Antonio Ranieri (Michele Riondino) enter his life. The longer he writes, the more his failing body and his hunger for love pull against each other.