Stefano Macchi

Through letters, diaries and personal testimonies, an account of the complexity and variety of experiences of LGBT Italians during the Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini (1922-43); intimate words that contrast with the lyrics of popular songs and the propaganda of the time, obsessed with extolling the myths of virility, femininity and motherhood and constrained by sexual repression.

Cecilia is a commoner who runs an inn, where the specialty is the "spaghetti alla carbonara". Moreover, the woman is tied to the movement of young patriots, named "Carbonari", who want a united Italy, and are struggling against the power of the pope. Cecilia believes she lost her husband in a fatal accident, and has made a new lover: Fabrizio, who is also a patriot. One day the guy's saved by a monk, when he is about to be imprisoned by the soldiers of Cardinal Rivarola. The monk is the husband of Cecilia, not dead in the accident, and now he helps her to fight against the power of Rome with the Carbonari.

The Second World War shows itself to the people in all its terror. Bianca is a dog. Her Jewish family was deported. Hopeless, she wanders around the city, until she finds an abandoned child. It is a matter of a moment, Bianca rediscovers the joy of living, names that child Arf and decides to make him grow up among the dogs. So Arf grows up happily, until an SS commando discovers him and decides to deport him to a camp. There, Arf finds a new friends, the ferocious Dobermans of the camp, cause he knows their language. The military would like to eliminate him, when the Führer with his escort arrives at the camp by surprise…