What is the secret of King Roger's pleasure garden? Dr Roberto Balducci, a retired archaeologist, is invited to Palermo by an elderly marchesa to take charge of the papers of her late husband, Don Francesco di Valenti. He arrives to discover that the Don has spent his life researching a pleasure garden known as La Favara, once the country retreat of the twelfth-century King Roger of Sicily. The marchesa wants to discover whether her husband's...