The Pioneers

In the Sicily of the late 1980s, Enrico Belfiore’s parents have a single passion: politics and the Italian Communist Party. Unlike his friend Renato, Enrico just dreams of being a “normal” boy. He therefore decides to run away from home, to take shelter with the inseparable Renato in the woods, where his friend intends to re-establish the “Pioneers of Italy,” a communist scout camp. They will be helped by new companions: Victor, the great, big bully who is the son of a Fascist-sympathizing construction worker; and Margherita, a determined Italian American girl who has run away from the nearby NATO base, with whom Enrico will fall in love. For the four of them, that summer will soon become a path of growth through which they will abandon their adolescence, bursting the bubble of certainties that had protected them until then.