Italy is vitalized by the growing prosperity of the post-war years, but where is the social awakening, the sexual liberation? The incongruities of modernization infuriate Pasolini and ultimately prompt him to travel through Italy. Using a microphone, he gets closer to his compatriots and asks them about their attitudes to love, (homo)sexuality, equality and public morality. The restless intellectual is not satisfied with the answers given by “ordinary people” to his pressing (and rarely open) questions. The writer Alberto Moravia and the psychologist Cesare Musatti have to explain it to him: What is wrong with this country?

Loan of the film print with kind support of Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V..