"Rome, 1970s. Clara is struggling to raise her three children under the crushing expectations surrounding marriage, gender and identity in the early 1970s. Her eldest child Andrew -- whom Clara calls Adri -- was born female but yearns for another life; an outsized, vibrantly-realized vision of a world where he can live as the boy he knows himself to be. Telling adults that he's an alien from another galaxy, Andrew often ventures through the reeds...

It is the Night of San Lorenzo, the night when dreams come true. While watching shooting stars, Cecilia tells her son about a similar night in 1944, when she was six years old, and the residents of San Martino, her small Tuscan hometown, struggled against Nazi oppression during the final days of WWII.

Tells the story of an Italian family from the end of the 1966-2000. It revolves around two brothers, Nicola and Matteo. In youth, they share the same dreams, hopes, readings, and friends, until one day they meet a girl, Giorgia, who diverts their destinies; Nicola decides to become a psychiatrist, while Matteo drops-out of university and becomes a policeman. It is an epic tale about the events and people that shape their lives.

Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive flower-maker, is a beautifully balanced series of tableaux depicting the infectious joie de vivre of youth and the tragic waste of disease and separation.