For an Answer. This little but charming film, which has been considered lost for decades, contains rare footage of Assisi in the Fifties, and, for special permission, of the Vatican caves and galleries. They will spend two days together, meet both Roberto's and Bruno's family. The time Roberto spends with Bruno is a hilarious, but sometimes emotionally merciless accelerated maturization process. Women arrive at a dance hall one at a time.
Men enter and couples dance, their personalities on display.
With the dancers changing characters, the film travels in time. In 1936, the Popular Front gives energy to the working class. In 1940, on the eve of the German occupation, a slumming rich couple gets their comeuppance. In 1944, as Paris is liberated, a German officer and a collaborator are rebuffed while a Resistance fighter gets a hero's welcome. In 1946, US soldiers bring silk stockings and jazz.