Among the Sinners (2013)
Reflecting Kundera’s playful style of “lightness of form and heaviness of inquiry,” Among the Sinners makes allusions to Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron. Just like ten young people who flee from plague-ridden Florence to an abandoned mansion in medieval times, ten young sinners from various countries hide in “Decameron,” a former mansion near Boston, hoping to escape the 21st century persecution of illegal immigrants.