After journeying through the Italy of the "musicarelli" from the 1960s with Nessuno mi può giudicare, Della Casa turns his attention to post-WWII archives. The result is an X-ray of a different country: narrated by the politicians Togliatti and De Gasperi, by the cinema of Germi and Castellani, by the ironical social analysis of Eduardo and Zavattini, by the cultural brutality of Bianciardi, and the wild rhythms of boogie-woogie. A biography through images of an unusual Italy, in constant transformation.