The island of Lampedusa has become the symbol for the large refugee movements of our time. Lampedusa, however, is also the name of an old noble family from Sicily – the family of writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. His only novel, Il Gattopardo published in 1958 one year after its author’s death, became a worldwide success. Luchino Visconti’s film adaptation received a Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1963 but what is the story behind this great novel? Solving this mystery leads you on a journey into the life of Tomasi and his German-Baltic wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee... and with that to an incredible European love story.