History Film / TheGoddessOfFortune

* HasTwoDaddies: A gay couple has to look after two siblings while their mother is in the hospital. [[spoiler:They become their full-time parents at the end.]]

* AbusiveParents: Elena, to Annamaria and Lorenzo in the past. She briefly becomes an Abusive Grandparent to Martina and Sandro.

* ChildCareAndBabysittingStories: The premise of the film, notable in which same-sex parenting represents a hot topic in Italy as of the time of the film's production.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Annamaria's mother.

* HasTwoMommies: The film's premise is a gender-inversion: a gay couple has to look after two siblings while their mother is in the hospital. [[spoiler:They become their full-time parents at the end.]]

* ManlyGay: Alessandro.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Downplayed. Alessandro ticks the boxes of a ManlyGay, but Arturo is more of a mild-mannered StraightGay than outright camp or effeminate.

* IllGirl: Annamaria.

* AdultFear: As Arturo and Alessandro have an argument, the kids disappear. They immediately start running through the streets screaming for them. They find the kids in a supermarket, thankfully unharmed.

* ChildrenRaiseYou: {{Subverted}}. At first, Martina and Sandro prove to be another challenge for an already-strained relationship and it's only [[spoiler:rescuing them from Elena's clutches]] that brings Arturo and Alessandro back together.

* HasTwoDaddies: The film's premise: a gay couple has to look after two siblings while their mother is in the hospital. [[spoiler:They become their full-time parents at the end.]]

* OutWithABang: Narrowly {{averted}} with Arturo, who faints suddenly while having sex with his lover.

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Elena, to Annamaria and Lorenzo in the past. She briefly becomes an Abusive Grandparent to Martina and Sandro.]]

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with [[spoiler: Arturo, whose affair is mostly emotional, yet still severely wounds Alessandro's pride]].

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:At the end, Arturo and Alessandro hold hands after God knows how much time and, by doing the ritual of the Goddess of Fortune, tacitly admit they still love each other.]]

* DisappearedDad: Martina and Sandro's dad(s) don't appear at all in the story. Martina suspects that Alessandro is Sandro's father.
* EvilMatriarch: Annamaria treats her mother Elena as this. [[spoiler: As she abused both her and her brother severely when they were kids, so much so that her brother was DrivenToSuicide, she has ample reasons for it]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Annamaria's mother]].

* KnightOfCerebus: After Elena is introduced roughly at the half-point of the film, [[spoiler:Annamaria dies, the kids are stuck in an abusive home]] and the story takes a serious turn for the dramatic.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: InUniverse: Mina, who's a trans woman, chose her name after famous Italian singer Mina.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:Ginevra, Elena's housekeeper, decides to turn against her employer and gives Arturo and Alessandro the keys to rescue the kids. They thank her by locking her in the cabinet with Elena.]]

* OppositesAttract: Deconstructed. One of the reasons their relationship has gone sour is because Alessandro (a gruff, manly plumber) thinks Arturo (a refined book editor) looks down on him. [[spoiler:Alessandro further grows into this conviction when he discovers that Arturo has been cheating on him with an artist.]]

* OutWithABang: Narrowly {{averted}} with Arturo, who [[spoiler:faints suddenly while having sex with his lover]].

* SayMyName: [[spoiler:How Alessandro discovers Arturo's infidelity: Arturo passes out suddenly while having sex with his lover and calls for Alessandro. The lover searches through Arturo's phone for Alessandro's name and calls him.]]

* ChildrenRaiseYou: {{Subverted}}. First, the kids aren't babies (they are respectively 12 and 8). More importantly, they initially prove to be another challenge for an already-strained relationship and it's only [[spoiler:rescuing them from Elena's clutches]] that brings Arturo and Alessandro back together.

* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The first half of the film is a kind of rom-com, with a childless gay couple whose relationship is on the rocks having to look after a friend's children. Then, after their bond definitely flounders [[spoiler:and Annamaria dies]] the story switches to the conflict between the two men on the one side, and the kids' strict grandmother on the other side, about who will get to keep the kids.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: {{Subverted}}. First, the kids aren't babies (they are respectively 12 and 8) and they are the children of a friend of the couple. More importantly, they initially prove to be another challenge for an already-strained relationship and it's only [[spoiler:rescuing them from Elena's clutches]] that brings Arturo and Alessandro back together.

* ManlyGay: Alessandro. Downplayed with Arturo, who's not exactly manly but certainly not camp.
* MrFanservice: Alessandro is a good-looking man and has several scenes in his underwear. Arturo holds his own as well, on the dad-bod side.

* AllGaysArePromiscuous: DeconstructedTrope, as Alessandro's tendency to sleep around is exacerbating his and Arturo's relationship problems.

* AllStereotypeCast: The protagonists' circle of friends: we have a gay couple, a Turkish immigrant, her trans daughter, a black girl, a man with anteretrograde amnesia...

* TheBackwardsR: See the film poster. Possibly just an aesthetic choice, since there's no particular Russian inspiration or reference.

* DisappearedDad: Martina and Sandro's dad(s) don't appear at all in the story. [[spoiler:Martina suspects that Alessandro is Sandro's father.]]

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Elena's son Lorenzo (Annamaria's brother) died of an overdose several years prior. [[spoiler:Then Annamaria dies of a congenital illness, leaving Elena childless.]]

* SignificantNameOverlap: Sandro is a truncated form of Alessandro. The official explanation is that Annamaria has named her son after her best friend. [[spoiler:Martina suspects that he was named after his ''father''.]]

* GildedCage: [[spoiler: Elena's villa, for Annamaria and Lorenzo before and Martina and Sandro later.]]

* ManlyGay: Alessandro. Downplayed with Arturo, who's not exactly manly but neither camp.

* BlackHumour: When Elena shows Arturo the bed in which he'll stay as a guest - a tiny single bed, in a windowless room and a ton of ominous crosses on the wall above it -, she explicitly mentions that it's the death bed of her younger son. Arturo is clearly unnerved. [[spoiler:Given TheReveal, it's possible she was deliberately screwing with him.]]

* SignificantNameOverlap: Sandro is a truncated form of Alessandro. The official explanation is that Annamaria has named her son after her best friend. [[spoiler:Martina suspects that she named him after his ''father''.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Elena appears, at first, welcoming to the kids if not somewhat strict. [[spoiler:Then she drops the act and she's revealed to be a racist, homotransphobic, ableist bigot.]]

* OppositesAttract: Deconstructed. One of the reasons their relationship has gone sour is because Alessandro (a plumber) thinks Arturo (a book editor) looks down on him.