A shepherd, an handmade pasta maker, a winemaker: three characters, three heretics because they think and act differenly, three stories to tell about the Italian social and cultural decline. The "Italy of warehouses" as Giorgio Bocca suggests in this movie. The characters, Maria Teresa Mascarello, Silvio Pistone and Mauro Musso didn't like their future and they are trying to change it. Small challenges in which we can glimpse a bigger changement. Open challenges, not won yet: they move on the opposite side of world's direction.

Paolo Casalis, born in Bra (Cuneo) in 1976, in 2001 graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Turin with a thesis focusing on sustainable atchitecture and the relation between construction building and sustainability. Together with Stefano Scarfati he created and directed The runner, special mention to the Marcarolo Film Festival, documentary participating to the BCNSFF2010 (Barcelona International Ficts Festival). In 2009  together with Stefano Scarafia he realized the documentary Gente di Terra Madre, presented to the Turin Festival Cinemambiente and Slow Food on Film in Bologna. Since 2009 he works with the association Bracinetica, directing documentaries in the frame of the project Giovani sguardi sul territorio.