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故事围绕一个圣诞节蛋糕展开，讲述了战争年代天主教女子学院里人性的纯真、贪婪和幻想。“pupil”一词来源于拉丁语“pupilla”，即小女孩。

Dante has a beautiful relationship with his girlfriend Alice, but he has a bad one with Time: absorbed by the many commitments of his daily life, he always arrives late and has the impression that his life is flowing too quickly. It also happens on the first day of his forty years, when Dante shows up hours late at his birthday party. According to him, the solution seems at hand: if he works hard enough, maybe in a few years he will be able to buy some time.

一位吝啬的罗马富商想方设法从教皇那儿获得贵族头衔，三个鬼魂登门造访，带他看清过去、现在与未来，让他领悟了人生的真谛。本片将英国文豪狄更斯的经典小说《圣诞颂歌》的故事背景转移到了19世纪的罗马，聚焦一个新兴资本家的传奇一生，去除了原著的圣诞节背景与极强的道德教化意义，将之与彼时教权衰微、资产阶级革命兴起的意大利社会现实紧密联系在一起。服化道真实还原了时代，复古气息浓厚，而凶杀等悬疑元素的加入更是让影片可看性十足。