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In the middle of August two large Italian families meet on Ventotene where radicals and influencers debate recent Italian history and way of life. Not everything is at it seems, so much so new and old conflicts come under scrutiny.

Several young men have to stop an ancient native American evil in the form of a killer shark which is attacking a small beach community.

The political and cultural controversies between two Italian families during their summer holidays in the Tirrenian sea.

For the love of the beautiful Elena the young fisherman's son Marcello turns a whole village upside down.

Umberto, to avoid the bankruptcy of his construction company, tries to rob a bank, which only gives him four years in the prison of a beautiful Italian island: Ventotene.

Rossini (Adalberto Maria Merli), history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that Mussolini imposed on the professors university. After a period of imprisonment he is so assigned to confinement on an island. Here the young intellectual finds himself in contact with the composite humanity that populated the places of confinement: militiamen, agents, common and political coercion, villagers. The figure of the director of the colony, the commissioner Rizzuto, stands out among all, who was a pupil of his father, and for whom he continues to have feelings of esteem and devotion.

Andrea and Isabelle patiently build a boat on the terrace of their home that should take them away from the monotony of daily routine.

While taking part to a seminar on European Federalism on the sunny Italian island of Ventotene, three young participants meet and as their personal bond grows closer and closer, they discuss and reflect on the meaning of being European, the troubled history of the continent and the future of the European integration.

People in different parts of the world see a falling star, make the same wish without knowing of the others and are thus united by a common destiny which helps them cope with the tough problems of modern life.

During the World War II something was happening in a small Italian islands, on the Tyrrenian Sea. Here, indeed, three men - Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi and Eugenio Colorni - were confined; during this time they were thinking about a different future, of peace and collaboration between peoples. From that idea the "Manifesto di Ventotene" was born: a plan for a free and unite Europe. There is a woman too with them: Ursula Hirschmann. Ursula is Colorni's wife, and she hides the "Manifesto" inside a dress lining to make it arrive in Rome without being seen with the aim to print and spread it. Many years later, in 1970, Altiero Spinelli was elected European Commissioner for Industrial Policies, and in 1976 he was elected deputy of the Italian Parliament as independent. A few months later, he enters the European Parliament. His dream has finally come true.

A journey through the senses on an island following Manuele, a blind person, and the people he shares a life-changing experience with