produced by Istituto Luce - Cinecittà
with Rai Cinema
and with Rai Trade
with the contribution of Mibac - Direzione Generale per il Cinema
in collaboration with Cubovision of Telecom Italia
italian distribution Istituto Luce - Cinecittà
international distribution Rai Trade
In the documentary we hear the stories of those who directly experienced the burden of being different, almost invariably obstructed by their own family, mocked at school, excluded by "normal" society.
It's Italy's homosexual world as lived in the 20th century, from the start to the 1980s, when, following certain American movements, the first attempts of "liberation" started spreading.
These people, who are now getting on in years, remember how they lived this situation under Fascism and then in the Second World War, when a veil of silence was drawn over the topic, and people lived in fear and repression.