乔万娜低调平凡，每天周旋于政府部门的会计工作、女儿的学校活动。在无趣的外表下，其实是一名执行各种国际危险任务的特务。某天高中同学聚会，发现所有同学都跟她一样，每天都有鸟事跟烦恼。这让她下定决心，接下来的任务要帮助身边所爱的人。透过浮夸的伪装、经历爆笑的情况，她要扭转人生，为朋友带来正义！

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.

介绍这套丛书的中国作家的一大特点就是更注重对人行为的描写，而忽略了该行为的心理动因。他们既接近中国文学的传统，又靠近后现代主义的叙述方式。反映个性的其实就是人的行动而非内心世界。这同样发生在意大利作家的身上， 这是后现代主义时代无法描写已不是中心和可信的自我所产生的结果。

2003 film by Marco Tullio Giordana

2005 film by Roberto Benigni

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.