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Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

An ageing writer has spent decades seducing his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome, but after his 65th birthday, he starts to look past the nightclubs and parties to find a landscape of exquisite beauty.

What unites a Baroque city filled with lights and the sounds of a festive band with the silence of a soak in a warm pool surrounded by snow in front of Mont Blanc? These are paths of pleasure and beauty that converge in a multicolored inlay on wood on a terrace in Sorrento, as well as in the moment when a bell is cast in an ancient foundry in the mountains of Molise. It is an Italy in harmony with the beauty of its landscape, attentive to the qualities of things, and ingenious in inventions and taste. It is the Italy of those who do things with passion.