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New York in the 1950s: Marty Mauser, a crafty salesman and table tennis ace, was supposed to build a career at his uncle’s shoe store. Instead, he travels to the World Championships in London, where he loses to a Japanese player using a new type of racket. In Tokyo, he would have the chance for a big rematch. But how to finance the trip when his girlfriend back home is pregnant, the cuckolded husband of a theater diva is out for revenge, and a mobster’s runaway dog needs to be found? Marty embarks on the obstacle course of his life.
In the early 1970s, Enrico Berlinguer, the charismatic General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), distanced himself from Soviet-influenced socialism and attempted to reconcile it with Western ideas of democracy. In a divided world, he advocated overcoming the dogmas of the Cold War and began a dialog with Aldo Moro, the leader of the Christian Democrats, against all odds. But what becomes of his “historic compromise” when Moro is kidnapped by the Red Brigades?
