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The film is set in Basilicata of 1964. Salvatore (novice Matthew bass) is a twelve-year old boy with a passion for cinema, which pushes him to go cycling on a daily basis at home near friends Catherine (Francesca D'amico) and Alessio (Abdallah Abdul Samad) to attend films screened in a room of the third vision. This passion is opposed by her father (Qamar Zaman), a Communist peasant with the authoritarian father figure and ruler, while the child's mother (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) even though the victim and her husband's succubus trying somehow to protect her children.
The announcement of the sale of an old 16 mm projector. gives rise to Savior the idea of creating a small film, but her dream is hindered by lack of money; so the little manages to steal the local cases section of the Communist Party (which includes actively his father) the sum collection of militants to send a delegation to Rome to Palmiro Togliatti's funeral. The theft, which leads to a series of misunderstandings and the lack of presence of Togliatti's funeral, but is discovered and Salvatore ends in the reformatory.
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Italian audio no subs.