The pivotal year of 1954, a peak of the Cold War. Cary Grant meets with Tito in a bizarre diplomatic action on behalf of the Secret Service. In Naples, the mobster Lucky Luciano launches the global drug trade. In a bar in Bologna, former partisans, smugglers, agents, and young communists gather. They all navigate the grand stage of history. The Italian author collective Wu Ming has achieved a remarkable feat, creating a fascinating fresco full of surprising twists, where history is rediscovered and reinvented.