That's what mathematician Godfrey Harold Hardy thought when, in 1918, he got into a cab in London with the identification number 1729. At the time, he was on his way to visit his ailing colleague ...

First episode: The old countess of Latour Vaudieu dies leaving all her possessions to the first-born Philip. The second son, Giorgio, instigated by his lover Claudia, kills his brother and his ...