1918, 1943, 1978. Three childhoods, three generations in 20th-century Italy on the same farm in a village in the Marche region. In these turbulent times marked by wars, fascism, resistance, emi- gration and violence, the personal stories of Zelinda, Assunta and Icaro merge with His- tory to tell the story of the Italian countryside and a family’s efforts to emancipate.