Francesca De Seta

A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Michele returns to his boyhood home, where he learns the reasons for his present mental state.

Vittorio De Seta's documentary about the Calabria, revisiting the territory he documented in I Dimenticati in 1959.