Federica Ranchi

Female prisoners get shipped to Devil's Island, where they are indoctrinated into prison life by abusive guards until a new prison governor arrives.

A wandering young prince in Egypt-ruled Persia befriends the poor and survives real peril until he’s drugged and weakened when he is made Pharaoh.

With WWII raging elsewhere in 1943 Italy, a young man's carefree summer in seaside Rimini gives way to a passionate affair with an older war widow.