A Coin in Nine Hands

A Coin in Nine Hands is set in Rome in 1933, the eleventh year of the Fascist dictatorship in Italy. There, during the space of a day, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people--including an old artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussonlini--and becomes the symbol of contact between human beings each lost in his own passions an in his intrinsic solitude.