The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself a bundle of nervous energy, alternately sweet, seductive, poetic, distracted, and unhinged. They begin a love affair after Agostino's funeral, then Gina confuses Fabrizio by sleeping with a stranger. Their visits to Cesare and then to Puck, one of Gina's older friends, a landowner losing his land, dramatize contrasting images of Italy's future. Their own futures are bleak.
01:47:55 · "Capitan Achab, I heard tell of Moby Dick. 01:48:00 · Wasn't it Moby Dick who took off your leg?" 01:48:04 · "Who told you that?" Achab cried. 01:48:07 · "Yes, Starbuck... 01:48:09 · ...and I will hunt it down beyond the Cape of Good Hope, 01:48:12 · beyond Cape Horn, 01:48:14 · beyond the great Maelstrom of Norway,
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