Sui tuoi passi

11-year-old Christian lives with his Italian mother Gioia in poverty on the island of Ischia. His German father died in a rescue mission before Christian was born. The kind boy had an unremarkable and calm life until, one day, his grandfather Carl Schneibel finds him. Schneibel is a wealthy businessman who had never seen Christian before. Since the old lonely man has no heir, he decides to take Christian in and offer him a good education. Schneibel has never been on good terms with his son and never liked his son’s choice of wife, so he decides that Gioia must not come along. Despite, Gioia does not wish to obstruct her son’s future and allows him to go. Thanks to his good nature and his kind ways, Christian wins the heart of his grandfather and changes his life for the better.

Late nineteenth century. Jarma is a small Asian kingdom that stands between the green of the rice paddies of Thai Samuthprakarn diamond crown beautiful tropical sea of French Indochina. For Maia, the young princess of Jarma, and Gabriel Barthes, the son of a French advisor their King. differences of race and class do not count. Instigated by the sweet wisdom of the monk Li, both young men are promised eternal fidelity. But the swirl of the separate colonial history of the cruelest form when a sinister character assassinate the brother of Maia.

Vita and Rosa are teenagers. The first lived in Genoa, in the Northern of Italy, then all her family moved in Naples, in the Southern of Italy. The two girls are very different in temper and disposition, but, after a first moment of almost hate, they became great friends. And Vita, younger and apparently weaker, will show herself the stronger of the two.

Gaia lives her life in joy. She is a teenager, she loves her father, manager of an important firm, she has a boyfriend and she is among the best in her classroom. But one night two policemen arrest her father. He is accused of bribe.

Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.