Pluto

Franco “Chief” Carling, former officer in the American army, is hiding in the dense woodland of the Alps, among the indelible marks of the two world wars. He is running from someone or maybe he is completing a mission. From a vortex of memories, impressions, reality and madness, powerfully emerges his anguish about the threat of a nuclear war, which has been a constant theme in the history of the past seventy years. Today, the nuclear threat has lost its most powerful “controller”, the deterrence emerging from a world divided into two blocs. The narrative takes place against an imaginary, sci-fi background, but it is based on meticulous historical reconstruction. We discover the reason why the main character spends his life in isolation, as his sorrow becomes a metaphor for a timeless question with no solution: a tangible, sword of Damocles, hanging over humanity day after day.