Enrico recalls their tumultuous relationship and examines grief, existentialism, and the importance of familial ties.

[1] Family Diary is an adaptation of the 1947 semi-autobiographical novel by Vasco Pratolini, Cronaca familiare, or, in English, Two Brothers.

Marcello Mastroianni plays Enrico, a struggling journalist in 1945 Rome.

He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin) has died.

Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoiled brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilt and responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves.