Giovanni Cattabriga

July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)

To discover the truth behind the mysterious objects her uncle brought back from the Far East during her childhood, filmmaker Francesca Lixi embarks on a journey to those places through archival footage.

In the 1970s, Italy was flooded with heroin. Carlo Rivolta, one of the most attentive journalists of his generation, is among the first to talk about the phenomenon from the columns of a new newspaper, "Repubblica".