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　　The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.
　　The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,
　　the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.
　　Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.

　　伊凡尼（南尼·莫莱蒂 Nanni Moretti 饰）有一个和睦温暖的家庭，儿子安德烈和女儿艾琳更是让这个家庭乐也融融。而伊凡尼身为心理医生，常常接触到各式各样的心理病患者，从而更加珍惜目前的生活。然而生活的残酷随之而来，在一个看上去平常的早晨，却传来了一个令这个家庭为之崩溃的消息——儿子在潜水运动中遇上不测，不幸身亡。
　　伊凡尼一家顿时陷入了一篇黑暗当中，母亲终日以泪洗脸，姐姐艾琳压抑着痛苦照顾悲伤的父母，而父亲，更是因为过度悲痛而不能继续工作。而儿子空空如也的房间，深深刺痛了每个家人的心。
　　远方寄来一个女孩子的来信，来信成全了家人对儿子的追思，并令到这个家庭重新有了一丝生机。然而逝者如斯，各人内心的伤痛，只有时间能慢慢治疗。