Garrone, a failed architect struggling to make a living on the fringes of Turin society, strolls the streets of the city centre, walking down the porticoes of Piazza Carlo Alberto after making a call to someone, very probably the person who will kill him that evening. Commissioner Santamaria, stationed at Via Lascaris, takes on the investigation. The first suspicions fall on Massimo Campi who lives in Villa d’Agliè. It later transpires that Garrone is someone whose presence was barely tolerated by the people he usually frequents as they recount in a sequence in Galleria Subalpina. Other characters are drawn in, including Lello Rivera who was engaged in an affair with Massimo and, to win him back, starts to investigate independently: in Piazza Solferino he attempts to get his companion’s attention after they fight. All the suspects are present, for various reasons, at Balòn, the flea market in Piazza della Repubblica, one Saturday morning for the key scene.
Garrone, a failed architect struggling to make a living on the fringes of Turin society, strolls the streets of the city centre, walking down the porticoes of Piazza Carlo Alberto after making a call to someone, very probably the person who will kill him that evening. Commissioner Santamaria, stationed at Via Lascaris, takes on the investigation. The first suspicions fall on Massimo Campi who lives in Villa d’Agliè. It later transpires that Garrone is someone whose presence was barely tolerated by the people he usually frequents as they recount in a sequence in Galleria Subalpina. Other characters are drawn in, including Lello Rivera who was engaged in an affair with Massimo and, to win him back, starts to investigate independently: in Piazza Solferino he attempts to get his companion’s attention after they fight. All the suspects are present, for various reasons, at Balòn, the flea market in Piazza della Repubblica, one Saturday morning for the key scene.
Primex Italiana, Production Fox Europa
Based on the novel The Sunday Woman by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini. Commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murder of Garrone, an architect of dubious character, amidst Turin’s bourgeoisie.
