Giorgio Pelloni

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth. As he unravels a web of lies that seems to encompass the whole town, he finds himself entangled in the same web.

The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.

A family of Brazilian farmers is desperately looking for work and moves from city to city.