Ferruccio, 15, finds himself fighting with the last defenders of the Republic of Salò. He writes about it in a diary, where he also reflects on his sisters’ destinies: one married to a fascist, the other to a communist. Guided by his great-uncle’s diary, Duccio Chiarini dives into his family’s past.

Poring over yellowing diary entries and photographs, director Duccio Chiarini grapples with the fascist ties of his own ancestral tree in this emotional, powerful documentary. Painfully fragmented and fragile, a family archive attests to the complicity of silence, and the ephemeral nature of memory.