The Subversives

The film combines actual footage of Communist leader Palmiero Togliattis funeral with the intermingled stories of four people affected by his death Ettore a Venezuelan radical who abandons the wealthy Italian woman he loves to go back to his country and help his cause Ludovico an ailing filmmaker who finds out that art alone is not enough Giulia a woman who embarks upon a lesbian affair with a former mistress of her husband and Ermanno a philosophy graduate who breaks up with his past