Overview
It is Christmas 1908 in Messina, one of the richest merchant cities of the Mediterranean. Peter, the 13 year-old son of a rich English family is notorious for his cruelty to children, animals and servants. One night he is ambushed and wakes up in a coffin underground in the city's Gothic cemetery, buried in retaliation for his callousness by a servant boy from his mother's estate. When a powerful earthquake razes Messina to the ground, Peter is trapped and his whereabouts are forgotten. Until a century later an English archaeologist and his daughter arrive in the city.
Cast
- Angelica Alleruzzo
- Antonio Alveario as Domestico
- Aran Bevan as Peter Hoffman
- Alessio Bonaffini as Padre Alfredo
- Terence Booth as Rod
- Claudio Castrogiovanni as Calarco
- Arcangelo Ciulla as Niccolò
- Matteo De Gregori as Sconsacrato
- Henry Douthwaite as Norman Nash
- Rosie Fellner as Harriet