The history of the Pilastro district begins in the 1960s, with a group of council houses a few kilometers from the center of Bologna, built in response to the demand for housing for the growing number of immigrants in the post-war period. In the shadow of the “Virgolone”, one of the largest residential complexes in the city, a neighborhood with almost seven thousand inhabitants grows, today often at the center of media attention only for crimes and crime stories. Through the history of the neighborhood and its inhabitants, the film explores the relationship between city spaces and daily experiences, in a context where challenges and contradictions in urban development are evident.