THEto the autumn season of Rai 1 opens with the series The recipe for happiness by Giacomo Campiotti with Cristiana Capotondi and Lucia Mascino (from tonight at 9.30 pm). A choral fiction that focuses sisterhood and the relationship between two womenapparently distant, who instead will support each other in a moment of difficulty.
The protagonists are Marta and Susanna. The first lives in Milan, but, when her husband disappears because he was accused of recycling, he moved to Marina di Romagna with his daughter Greta and the rosefailing mother -in -law. Here he goes in search of truth. And always here meets Susannaa tough woman, who grew up a daughter alone, now a teenager, and who brings to boast barely with the garage. This Place for Marta becomes an anchor of salvation.
The recipe for happiness: plot first episode of the new fiction on Rai 1
Marta (Cristiana Capotondi) lives in Milan in a luxury apartment with her daughter Teenger Greta (Nicky Passerella) and her husband Enrico (Flavio Parenti), a financial broker who works together with his brother Simone. Life proceeds without hitches. Everything changes when one day at the door of the house knocks the Guardia di Finanza: they are looking for Enrico. Is accused of recycling and aggravated fraud. Marta tries to trace him in every way, but he disappeared. Life in Milan has become unlivable: after the scandal, the eyes of the press are on her.
Marta does not understand what happened and wants to find the truth. Some tracks bring it to Marina di Romagnaa small seaside resort where Enrico seems to have had a suspicious meeting many years earlier (and just before their wedding). Together with his daughter and the rosefailing mother -in -law (Valeria Fabrizi), therefore part for the Romagna coast.
Cristiana Capotondi in “The recipe of happiness”. (Courtesy Press Office)
Here, after a hitch with the car, he runs into Giacomo (Eugenio Franceschini), a carabiniere in the area who takes her to the workshop of her sister Susanna (Lucia Mascino). The two women can’t stand. They are the opposite of the other: Susanna raised her daughter Asia alone, while Marta looks like one of the high bourgeois ones who never compromise. Despite the differences, during the first two episodes the two will approach.
History of sisterhood. First episode aired on Rai 1 on September 25th and on Raiplay
Marta rented a room right in the pension/piadineria/service station where Marta lives, with her father Giovà (Andrea Roncato), an ex Playboy, and her brother Giacomo, just divorced by Barbara. Susanna, however, does not want the woman to whom the news talk about remains there one more day. However, when the two begin to confide the attitude of one towards the other changes.
Marta continues her investigation. He asks Giacomo for help, who manages to find photos of a speed camera in the archive Taken many years earlier at Enrico’s car. Then Discover a bag full of money in the pink bag And a husband’s ticket: “Love I am innocent”.
Cristiana Capotondi and Lucia Mascino. (Courtesy Press Office)
“Sisterhood is the central theme of The recipe for happiness – says Cristiana Capotondi – Marta and Susanna take the hand and try to support each other. This series is a deeply human fairy tale that hooks to the themes of our time. Marta is a light woman, smiling that suddenly must find the strength to make a shot forward ». And he will do it thanks to the help of Susanna and a small community.
The recipe for happiness: the cast of the series. Cristiana Capotondi and Lucia Mascino
Cristiana Capotondi and Lucia Mascino, the protagonists, are part of the adult cast, Valeria Fabrizi, in the role of a forgetful grandmother and mother -in -law (fake or true?), Orietta Berti, in the part of itself, And Andrea Roncato, a former playboy lover of the card game.
Then there is parterre of young actors. Nicky Passerella is Greta, a spoiled daughter of Marta who can’t stand Marina di Romagna. He would like to return to Milan to his life ever together with his boyfriend. Emma Benini plays Asia, Susanna’s daughter. A girl who loves to study, loves physics and hates the holidays. His dream is to move to Milan and graduate from the Polytechnic. However, Susanna does not have the economic means to bear the expenses. The meeting with Greta will change both.
And then there is Ahmed (Omar Diagne), son of Ornella (Valentina Ruggieri), Cook of Piadineria, a guy who likes to have fun and go to motorbike. Emma has a soft spot for him. But he has a weakness for Greta, who calls “princess”.

