Michele Giuffrida works for a newspaper in Napoli, but he’s not a great journalist, he does whatever small job they give him. He has a father he keeps locked in a house with a woman watching over him, and he doesn’t let him out because he says he’s dangerous. This is because his father is resentful that he says that he wrote various songs and they were all stolen from him.
Lisa is a photographer with ambitions.
There’s going to be a Festival in Napoli, but there’s an accident and three people are injured.
A postcard arrives at the “Il Mattino”, signed by Funiculì Funiculà, which is the title of an old song, warning that everyone connected with the Festival will die. Michele wants to ignore it, but Lisa gives it to their boss and it gets printed. Michele is assigned to write on this, but he’s scared. He keeps saying he’s not able to write good articles, but Lisa keeps pushing him and involving him in her investigation.
At night, while helping a blind guy called Dieci Decimi, he hears gunshots, and a guy comes stumbling towards him, saying weird things he doesn’t understand the meaning of, and then dies. Criminals arrive on cars and beat him up and take him away, sure that the guy told him something important and even gave him something. Michele tells them everything he remembers but he has nothing. He manages to escape but then he is caught again while with Lisa , so they take her away to force him to give them what they think he has. Michele tries to free her, but in the end she is the one to help both of them out of there.
Troisi plays himself, actor Troisi who has been invited to this Festival, but then he gets threatened by the maniac who has already killed once, James Senese who had ignored his warning.
No matter how much security guards they promise him, he refuses to take part in this festival anymore. Lisa suggests saying that, but then surprising everyone at the end. He gets killed.
Eventually Lisa meets Michele in his ‘study’, and finds out the truth, that it was Michele who killed them because he can’t stand all their talk about changing Napoli, which is perfect the way it always was. The police arrive to arrest him.
Michele - Lello Arena
Massimo Troisi as himself.
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