Carmelo Saitta

A woman wants to have a child and her husband doesn't, so she has an affair with a mechanic to get pregnant.

One day in 1930, José Américo Ghezzi ("Bepo")—an unemployed anarchist stonemason—leaves his hometown, not to return until 1955. For twenty-five years, he wanders with no direction other than the path of the railway tracks, joining the silent world of the "crotos"—itinerant laborers—where he meets "the Frenchman," a mentor who leaves an indelible mark on his life. Back home, his friends and a woman await him, weaving the fabric of their own lives. Sixty years later, facing the camera, he relives his romances and his worldview in a kind of collage of perspectives and dreams, centered on the fundamental question: "Is freedom possible?"

Carmelo Saitta devoted his life to the research and composition of electroacoustic and contemporary music. Now, at 75, he reflects on his life and the present, where he approaches the recording of new work.

Ani, an apprentice hairdresser who loses her job meets Danilo, a forty-something street scissors sharpener.