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A journey through the years of counterculture and attempted revolution, through archive footage, guided by the memory of a retired revolutionary, Vittorio Alfieri, former head of the Milanese column of the Red Brigades. From factory initiatives, through armed struggle and half a life in prison, a glimpse of a forgotten history, which we still keep hidden, especially from ourselves.

Mario Blaconà is a cinema programmer at the San Fedele Cultural Center in Milan and is editor of the online magazines Lo Specchio Scuro and Filmidee. In 2018 he directed the documentary short film Which of you was not born here, winner of the Montelupo Fiorentino Film Festival, and in the same year he arrived among the finalists of the Solinas Award for documentary with the project Benq5, with which he won the Front Lab Aosta 2018 and participated in the international laboratory Balkan Documentary Center. In 2021 he directed the medium-length documentary Italia, theories for a home movie, with which he participated in the Milan Filmmaker Festival and in FIDBA at Buenos Aires. In 2022 he partecipated to the artistic residency U Stories with the project Domina. He is currently head programmer of the Bellaria Film Festival, is a member of the Sole Luna Doc pre-selection committee and collaborates with the Locarno Film Festival within the Locarno Filmmakers Academy and L'immagine e la Parola.