马里诺·帕西里奥（Marino Pacileo）因额头上有明显的胎记而被称为“戈巴乔夫”，是那不勒斯Poggioreale监狱的会计师。 Pacileo沉默寡言而害羞，对生活只有一种热情：扑克。 他爱上了一个叫莉拉（Lila）的中国女孩，当他发现她的父亲无力偿还在桌子旁产生的债务时，帕西里奥（Pacileo）偷了牢房里的钱，交给了女孩。 从那一刻起，在输掉比赛，收集反手和进行抢劫之间，他开始在湿滑的斜坡上转弯，那里没有回头路。

Marco Bellocchio makes a film on the imprisonment of Aldo Moro, the leader of Christian Democrats, kidnapped and killed in Italy by the Red Brigades in the spring of 1978. What spurs an uncompromising intellectual, an "irreconcilable" film-maker to face- 25 years later - such an over-whelming and unresolved episode of Italian history? The film-making is the occasion to explore again the Seventies -the most vital and contradictory decade of our recent history- and the tragic event that was the watershed of that decade. A documentary about people, who believed that a revolution -or something like that - could still be possible, in those years, without neither arms nor arbitrary sentences. A film about people who definetely believed in a better world or at least in a better Italy.