A wealthy dentist who spends the weekend wargaming with friends provokes a dangerous reaction from his wife, who slips a real gun among the fake ones. An old couple turns to child kidnapping to cover their gambling debts. A young librarian saves the mother of the kidnapped children and confesses her long-standing love for her, expressed through anonymous letters that sustained each other's lives. A college professor who captivates his students with lectures on what is truly important in life finds himself as usual lonely and forgotten on his birthday. A mosaic of souls searching for the meaning of life.

Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.

Marco Bellocchio makes a film on the imprisonment of Aldo Moro, the leader of Christian Democrats, kidnapped and killed in Italy by the Red Brigades in the spring of 1978. What spurs an uncompromising intellectual, an "irreconcilable" film-maker to face- 25 years later - such an over-whelming and unresolved episode of Italian history? The film-making is the occasion to explore again the Seventies -the most vital and contradictory decade of our recent history- and the tragic event that was the watershed of that decade. A documentary about people, who believed that a revolution -or something like that - could still be possible, in those years, without neither arms nor arbitrary sentences. A film about people who definetely believed in a better world or at least in a better Italy.

2010 film by Stefano Incerti