From the novel of the same name by Robert Harris, Italian premiere at the Rome Film Festival, adesso al cinema Sinossi: One night, a much loved pope dies suddenly; the Dean Cardinal Lawrence must organize and preside over the conclave that will elect the new pontiff, and the one hundred and eighteen most powerful cardinals of the Catholic Church close themselves in the Vatican for the votes. The purple red of the cardinal's clothes cuts through the sumptuous and rigorous architecture and the white, neri, gray of the Vatican marbles: Lawrence has to juggle power plays, intrigues, alliances, mysteries and must himself