Explores Dante’s experience in exile, and his completion of the last two parts of the Comedy, shortly before his death in Ravenna in 1321. Interweaving soaring scenes from the second and third parts of The Divine Comedy with key events of Dante's biography, Part Two chronicles the poet's journey up the mountain of Purgatory, and the heavenly spheres of Paradise. The film goes on to explore the afterlife and literary and cultural fate of Dante's masterpiece, from the time of his death in 1321 down to the present.