A biography of the great filmmaker and a portrait of the artist and the man, based on repertory material, film clips from his movies, old super-8 reels, backstage documents, photographs borrowed from the family albums, drawings, cartoons, and an interview with Pierfrancesco Diliberto, known as Pif. “The challenge was to tell the story of our father Ettore Scola, a director, screenwriter, illustrator, humourist, intellectual, and activist – explain the directors – using an approach that we believe is the key to his cinema: talking about serious issues with a touch of humour.”