Ever since the referendum that said no to nuclear energy in 1987, Italian society and its cultural and political leaders have been wondering. A college senior writing her thesis decides to meet the experts - environmentalists, economists, physicians, and Nobel Prize winners - to get a handle on the issue: its every new finding, implication, and consequence. Shuttling between Italy and France, weighing the scepticism of the ecologists and the enthusiasm of the backers of new nuclear power plants, Erica learns that the future of nuclear power in Italy is hardly a foregone conclusion.