A Coin in Nine Hands

Synopsis

During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people—including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each lost in private passions and nearly impenetrable solitude. " A Coin in Nine Hands has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history.