After twenty years of marriage, Gloria discovers that her husband has been cheating on her. It' a terrible trauma and she decides to stay with her sister in USA in St. Louis. She takes with her Matteo and Francesco, her two sons. Matteo wastes no time in settling into his new life, but Francesco find it more difficult, being shy and full of complexes.

At a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiancé, Angelo. Her parents feud about infidelity; an aging salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bologna, Angelo's mother frets that her son is marrying beneath him; his sisters are less critical. Early the next morning, the four of them go by train to the farmhouse, joined by Angelo's married, unpregnant sister. The day-long dinner is riotous, couples display affection and impatience, children chase angels. Angelo's family stays the night, and his sister Linda has a visitor. A silver elephant makes the perfect gift.

When Jesus is taken off the cross at Golgotha, Thomas arrives. Like most other disciples, he worriedly took refuge with friends in Jerusalem after Jesus's arrest. After Jesus's burial, the disciples decide to leave Jerusalem quickly, but Thomas refuses to leave Jesus' body behind, as he fears that the tomb may be desecrated.

1995 film directed by Daniele Luchetti

Mythology and religious dogma are slowly revealed when an attractive young woman is approached by a modeling agency that pulls her into an underworld of priests that are not Christian but rather want to resurrect Satan by collecting the souls of 18 beautiful children.

On March 16 1978, the Red Brigade kidnap the Chief of the Christian Democraty, the party in power in Italy since the end of the war. fifty-five days later, his corpse was found in the trunk of a red Renault. Moro was not only the victim of the brigadists but also of the struggle for power between the italian parties. Written by Jean-Marie Berthiaume

这部电影讲述的是1915年奥斯曼帝国对亚美尼亚人的屠杀，而土耳其政府官方是不承认历史上曾经屠杀过150万亚美尼亚人的。
该片参加了2007年柏林电影节。柏林《世界》报发表了一篇彼得·赞德的文章，其中提到“《云雀农场》的出现正是时候——在亚美尼亚记者Hrant Dink被谋杀以后，在诺贝尔文学奖帕慕克受到威胁以后。该影片本能成为本次柏林电影节的亮点，但它却根本不在主要评奖项目中。”
很多人对这次电影节提出质疑，怀疑电影节主席Dieter Kosslick是否为了避免引起政治争议而使得Paolo Taviani和Vittorio Taviani导演的电影《云雀农场》（The Lark Farm）失去了获奖机会。