As a group the current generation of 68-year-olds in Italy has acquired symbolic status, and symbols often delude us, independently of their content. Depending on how we look at them, those years can seem like pre-history or only yesterday. The vague but strong feeling remains that something important happened. Young people, feminism, the protest years, the assemblies, love, pain, violence and again, cultures, fashions and sensibilities: they seem like shards of different pasts and in part they are. These years have many faces. To recount them all, Anna Bravo begins with the woman in the mirror and the unresolved issues she believes are worth addressing directly after forty years of history and life. She doesn’t smooth over the cracks, doesn’t judge or absolve but neither does she evade difficult questions. Again, she refrains from giving us a ‘historical’ overview of the protests. Rather, she talks about the distinguishing currents of the sixties and seventies, ever changing, vanishing and re-emerging. She talks about students in American universities and the universities of Trento, Turin and Rome, the pacifism of Martin Luther King and its crisis, that May in France and its repercussions, Italy’s ‘hot autumn’ and militant anti-fascism, the (apparent) unsinkability of the patriarchal model and the storm unleashed by feminism, not forgetting – of course – Presley, We Shall Overcome and Mr. Tambourine Man.