Valeria is the young assistant of a film producer. She lives in an apartment on the same floor of her mother and writes anonymously for a successful screenplayer, Alessandro Pes. One day she bumps into an odd retired policeman who tells her a criminal story. Valeria is wary but listens fascinated by him. When she goes back home she uses the story she has heard from the man as the subject for the forthcoming script of Alessandro Pes, which has been expected to be consigned to the producers for a long time. The subject is appreciated to the extent that the movie is financed even by foreign companies and an old but well-known American director is employed to direct it. However, this is a dangerous subject. In fact, The stolen Caravaggio tells the mysterious theft of a famous painting by Caravaggio, La natività, which has been stolen in Palermo by the Mafia. As a consequence, Valeria will play a role which is unusual to her.
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一个3包含于2包含于1的故事，3为2的潜意识，2作1的戏仿，1是1的部分记叙。“我讨厌拉斯凡提尔”hhhhh
失窃名画背后的故事，融合了电影、家庭、政治、侦探等流行元素，各种桥段杂烩，缺少一个真正动人的重点。
「戏中戏」与虚构/真实混杂互相影响的结构，不过在意大利电影习以为常的自带混乱属性的叙述过程中，反而既失控又平庸起来。
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