A split second before it happened, it seemed impossible. If these are not miracles, what on earth is left for us to marvel at?
"When Silvio, the great narrator of miracles, burst onto the national political stage, people were still staying that television was the mirror of society. But already the interpretation did not go far enough: soon Italian society would be inside that strange mirror, head to toe like Alice, and, like her, would embark on the most colourful and frightening journey of its entire history."
Brizzi delights with this ironic account of Italy from the eighties to today. In this national comedy there is room for passion and friendship, Pertini and Supergulp, Berlinguer and Drive in, the years of the Pentapartito and the strange destiny of a debut narrator. And then there's Silvio, his rise to power, the public scandals, the end of a myth. The First and Second Republic of a country waiting for another springtime in which to blossom again.