Film Commission Torino Piemonte

In the ‘70s, Albo Orlandi was Personnel manager at Farmitalia-Montecatini in Settimo, one of the most important chemical industries in Italy.
It is from the story and the perspective of this character that the documentary approaches the narration of what Farmitalia
represented for the social context of Settimo, a town which
for almost a whole century identified itself with this factory
and the political and trade-union conflicts which fostered the
development of a conscious and combative workers’
movement.
The traditional “choral” approach made of faces and voices
of those who once worked in the plant is turned upside-down
by the director’s narrative choice to deliver a recount filtered
by the human and personal experience of a man, the
Personnel Manager. This was a complex professional role
which, in that period, was characterized by doubts, fears and
interior contradictions, but though experiencing the events
from the firm’s stand-point, can help provide a broader and
more objective insight into one of the most complex and
dramatic periods of Italian history in the second half of the
20th century.