Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (The Young Pope) unpeels the complex personality and motivations of the billionaire former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - played with unmistakable panache by Toni Servillo - during a tumultuous period in his career, as his marriage to second wife Veronica Lario fractures; all the while skilfully threading together stories of a wide variety of characters from different levels of society and their attempts to either ingratiate or distance themselves from him.