October 20th 1959. Giuseppe Amato, producer of masterpieces of Italian Neorealism such as Blasetti’s “A Walk in the Clouds” or De Sica’s “Umberto D.”, is in a screening room watching the footage of Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita”. He is proud of his latest production, a film that no other producer wanted to finance. The director’s version is four hours long. Fellini doesn’t want to cut out any of it and distributor Angelo Rizzoli thinks it’s a financial disaster. This is the most dramatic challenge Giuseppe Amato ever faced as a producer. It will cost him his career and, ultimately, his life. Based on original and never before published letters, contracts and production documents, this docu-drama is told with the exact words of its protagonists. It portrays the real story of the making of one of the most famous Italian film ever made.