Nanni Balestrini

In 1848 Milan, a thief and a baker witness the chaotic final days of the Italian Revolution.

16mm experimental film documenting Mario Ricci's "Illuminazione".

16mm experimental film documenting Mario Ricci's "Illuminazione".

In this painful melodrama, an aging mother (Claudia Cardinale) attempts to cope with the progressive deterioration of her grown son due to his drug addiction. At first only manipulative, in addition to stealing from her he eventually becomes abusive and violent, and she must take strong measures if she is to save her own life, much less his.

At the beginning of the eighties, Sirio, a young worker of the Terni steelworks with a past in student protesting, decides to abandon his job to join an extreme left-wing group. Although he declares himself contrary to the armed struggle following the decision by some elements of the group to carry out terrorist actions, he is arrested upon being caught with his best friend Apache.