Piccola America

Piccola America N/A

Early thirties. Thousands of peasants recruited in the North-east, leave their land to work the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes. The "redemption of the Agro", with the construction of five new cities, soon became a banner of the fascist propaganda. Mussolini promises everyone a piece of land and the glory of having participated in a historic undertaking. But the reality is quite different. Malaria, hunger and the nightmare of the war (announced by the film "Scipio Africanus" in Sabaudia), await soon the settlers.