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- A town devastated by an earthquake is the set chosen by a troupe to shoot a film about Greek statesman Pericles and his "Epitaph". However, a bureaucratic fate decides otherwise and the town square must be defended.
- In Sicily 80% of businesses still pay 'protection money' to the Mafia. Sicilians are battling to break this culture, yet in this report on the island's anti-mafia fight, not everything is as it seems.
- The last Red House is a Vr 360° cinematic experience that evoke the dramatic story of Carmelo and Netty Onorato during the 2°World War days.
- The scrap merchants in Palermo have weathered faces and hands that bear the marks of a life of hard work. The film accompanies the history of these 'ecological workers', professionals that have been recycling rubbish for generations. Since the 1950's they have been working in hellish conditions at Bellolampo, the city landfill, where they have been rummaging through mountains of stinking rubbish to find materials that could be resold. After they had been denied access over there, the scrap merchants came to the city, whizzing about in their 'Ape' vans, collecting not only card board, iron and aluminium but also clothes, utensils and the most oddly assorted things. In this way they managed for years to provide for 400 families. They collected items for recycling, a service that the public administration had neglected to provide. In 2009 the rubbish management crisis and the collapse of the company dealing with that led to a state of emergency in Palermo as well as in Naples. The 'munnizza', the rubbish, becomes the citizens' nightmare. The streets are swamped by rubbish, the rubbish tip is overflowing. At night the rubbish bins go up in flames. However, in spite of their great success the scrap merchants aren't allowed to continue their business. The politicians concerned don't seem to be interested in exploring possible solutions to the problem but seem determined to insist that the only viable alternative is to build incinerators, big business.
- Sicily, 2006. The election campaign for the region president begins, the contenders are: Rita Borsellino, a pragmatical and militant woman taken up with anti-mafia, and Totò Cuffaro, the outgoing governor investigated for aiding and abetting at Cosa Nostra. Two names that immediately bestow a wider meaning at the political confrontation and at the institutional fight between the right and the left wing. The documentary narrates the ransom attempt of those Sicilians that, supporting Borsellino, dreamt of breaking up the political and social system in order to have another (hi)story.