Alleged Gangster

We are born very young in a very old time. Katia Viscogliosi and Francis Magnenot travel in Italy along the antique Via Aurelia, in the footsteps of Katia's father. It's the path he had taken in 1951, he was 13, looking for a better future. The movie captures life as it manifests throughout the way - seaside resorts, beaches, industries, ports, inhabitants - an adds to this present the characteristic timelessness sideration experienced by the traveler. At the beginning, there's a landscape passing by the car windows. Like when you're a kid, looking at the sky because you're bored: some images pop up all of a sudden and make your heart jump. Sometimes the emotions they give are so powerful they remain for ever in our memories. The movie captures life as it manifests throughout the way along the Via Aurelia - seaside resorts, beaches, industries, ports, inhabitants - an adds to this present the characteristic timelessness sideration experienced by the traveler. What becomes obvious when you stare at the present looking for traces from the past, is that the same situations keep repeating forever, and that only hopes and dreams model the landscape. Is the present poetic enough to answer to yesterday's world? Katia Viscogliosi and Francis Magnenot travel in Italy along the antique Via Aurelia, in the footsteps of Katia's father. It's the path he had taken in 1951, he was 13, looking for a better future.