

The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.
Costume
Rome to Versailles—every era gets its lavish due.
Direction
Sarmiento's restless camera refuses to stay put.

Director
Valeria Sarmiento
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Valeria Sarmiento edited this while her husband Raúl Ruiz's unfinished projects sat waiting—explaining the restless, omnivorous energy.
The film adapts a supposedly unfilmable novel by Valeria's own twin brother, creating a family artistic ouroboros.
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