1954, auf dem Höhepunkt des Kalten Krieges. Ein junger Kellner aus Bologna beginnt eine schmerzliche Suche, Cary Grant wird vom Secret Service angeheuert und Lucky Luciano wird in Neapel versuchen, in den Heroinhandel einzusteigen. Sie alle verbindet ein Fernsehgerät mit einem trügerischen Innenleben...
The year: 1954, the height of the Cold War.
The world is divided into East and West.
In Naples, mafioso Lucky Luciano and his Mafia minions are busy fixing horse-races, and overseeing the creation of the global heroin trade. In Hollywood, some members of Her Majesty's Secret Service have a dangerous mission for the supremely elegant actor Cary Grant. And in Bologna, Pierre Capponi, a lovelorn young barman, is about to embark on a painful odyssey in search of his missing father, one that will end up taking him half-way around the world.
And bringing together all these strands and more is a missing television set, a McGuffin Electric, an appliance with a very special secret...
