Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

A nuclear catastrophe has wiped out all life on Earth. Four families have survived, finding refuge in fallout shelters providentially built in their backyards. The survivors communicate with each other via a satellite audio/video connection and spend their days hoping that someone else has survived the nuclear holocaust and will contact them.

The story of a young Senegalese man who treks the Sahara, takes an immigrant boat bound for Italy, the attempts to eke out a living there - finally deciding to return to his native place. Vittorio De Seta's first fiction feature since 1969.