A hieratic Count sits in his elegant mansion finishing his writings - Alphonse, a young Waloon officer, rides through the Murgia to reach his regiment in Naples but soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over ten days. A range of situations in stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provide entertainment on an epic scale. The two men's destiny intertwined, it is difficult to know who's real between the two and who belongs to the other's mind. This is a journey for both of them which Alphonse will continue, uncertain in the end, if his experiences were real or a dream.
Pilar López de Ayala
as Rebecca
Alessio Boni
as Pietro Di Oria
Flavio Bucci
as Vecchio Moreno
Caterina Murino
as Principessa M. S.
Valentina Cervi
as Ines
Jordi Mollà
as Jan Potocki / Diego Hervas
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
as Alfonso Van Worden
Camilla Diana
as Celia
Ivan Franěk
as Thibaud
Umberto Orsini
as Belial
Alessandro Haber
as Cornandez
