Model employees declaim the long-awaited modernity against the backdrop of smoking chimneys , while up there, who knows where, a swarm of alien creatures hidden in space laboratories proceed with the conquest of Earth and its resources thanks to a mysterious object.
Through audiovisual and sound archival material, "The Tale of Nenè who learned how to fly" recounts the dark journey of a kid, who from space to the bowels of the earth collects fragments of a Sicily that discovers oil and the mysterious civilization that carries it.