本片讲述发生在19世纪西西里的五个故事：
另一个孩子：一位母亲时刻等待着远在他乡的两个儿子的来信，却对身边另一个儿子视而不见，因为那是她被抢盗强暴后生下的孩子……
迷月症：一个男人疯狂地爱上了月亮，每当圆月升起之时，他便陷入迷狂状态，激动之时甚至对月嘶吼。他的怪异举动吓坏了自己的妻子……
坛子：富有的农场主请来手艺高超的工匠修补他的坛子，而工匠却不慎掉了进去……
安魂曲：村民们联合起来，要求地主安葬他们的遗体……
与母亲的对话：作家Luigi Pirandello向母亲讲述了一个他构思许久却迟迟无从下笔的故事。

Three years after the loss of his brother Vittorio, with whom he shared his entire career, Paolo Taviani returns to the works of Luigi Pirandello, which the pair adapted in 1984 (Chaos) and 1998 (You Laugh). In keeping with the Sicilian playwright’s vision, the film is not at all what it appears to be. The title may come from a 1910 novella, but there is no trace of that book’s jealousy-riddled plot. Instead, the focus is on Pirandello himself, or rather, his ashes, which are transported from a hasty burial site in fascist Rome to a permanent resting place in Sicily, on a trek that takes us through post-war Italy and its filmed memories, as seen in newsreels, amateur films and fragments of Neorealism. Having buried the master, Leonora addio then shifts gear from road movie to film adaptation, but here it picks a different Pirandello story, namely the last one, written shortly before his death in 1936. From the farewell of the title to its return to the writer’s last words, it is hard not to read this work, so free and yet so much a part of the Taviani world, as a moving brotherly farewell which, just as in 2012’s Golden Bear winner Caesar Must Die, once again uses cinema to give voice to literature and history.

二战期间，一名意大利游击队员因为与一名年轻女性的纠缠而导致与他所在的抵抗运动不合