Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on the conditions leading to Fascism and the post-WWII reaction to the Fascist experience.
World War II as told through the famous Luce newsreels, featuring the monthly events of those years. The rubble and the physical and moral wounds of a country devastated by bombings, deprivation, foreign occupations, and the Civil War.
