Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
It's time for Luca to say goodbye to his colleagues and friends. It's a sad moment for everyone.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
There are plenty of people—women, actually— to send Luca off on his bus, but he keeps looking around for a certain someone to show up...
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Monopoly, the board game invented in the US in 1903, is used to explain monetary policies and Italy's current financial woes.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
The segment concentrates on the richness of the Sicilian dialect, a dialect which is less and less spoken. The narrator interviews two poets who recite their works in Sicilian, providing insights into the language.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
In this segment, we see a flashback to Iolanda's murder. She was an honest woman through and through. And it looks like Manara confirms his resignation, now that the case has been solved.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
What would the police do without Lara's aunt Caterina? She knows just where to look to get precious information about the case.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Saint Rosalia (1130–1166), recognized by her crown of roses, is Palermo's patron saint. The video shows the July 14 parade in honor of the saint, and a young man who credits his cure from a grave illness to Saint Rosalia.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Luca's mind is going full speed ahead, and this leads him to invite Lara and her aunt to the movies. The outing ends up revealing an extremely delicate and awkward situation, but an important one for the case.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Pitrè's mission was to conserve and safeguard the traditions of his people, the Sicilians, and to keep the roots alive. Looking at religious traditions is one important way to do this.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Luca is about to pack his bags, but there are still some suspects to question. And Lara has some questions for Luca, too.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
On this last day of Luca's service, everyone is working hard to get to the core of the case.
Lara is trying to pretend things are normal.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lara's zia Caterina goes to the Spada's mineral water plant, taking Brigadiere with her.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
This segment focuses on an actor who retells and acts out stories from Sicily's past, speaking in Sicilian dialect. He uses the Pitrè Museum as a source for material. The museum houses a manuscript with over 4,000 Sicilian proverbs, just one of the many volumes of Sicilian ethnographic material.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
This episode has been full of equivoci (misunderstandings, mix-ups), and this final segment is no exception. But we haven't seen the last of Manara!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Pitrè's life was marked by a sort of travelling storyteller tradition in his family. In those days, a cuntastorie (storyteller) would go around to all the piazzas and tell stories, and people would pay to hear them.
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