Valeria Parrella talks about her intense and contradictory bond with Naples and the neighborhood she lives in. The full-time innovative Donna Assunta school overlooks the sea, but faces Nisida, the juvenile detention center. Naples, she says, is not a city you can just live in and ignore, and has become for her an inexhaustible source of literary inspiration.

Author Valeria Parrella talks about the connection between her novel Almarina and various locations within Naples: Nisida (a volcanic islet that houses a juvenile detention center) and Bagnoli (a seaside neighborhood of Naples). What emerges is the portrait of an intense and contradictory city, marked by working-class identity, the sea, and the reality of juvenile prison.

Sandra now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in North Carolina. She is still working and loves it. She and Marika discuss some Italian expressions about the value of work and about how their friendship has lasted all these years.

Valeria Parrella recounts the deep and complex bond with Naples, a city that becomes language, identity, and memory. Through Almarina, a Naples that is 'wonderful and terrible' emerges, but also a place of freedom, growth, and hope.

The story of Sandra continues, a restaurateur in Miami, chosen to cook at a White House event for Barack Obama. Between initial disbelief and rigorous security checks, the experience becomes a source of great pride for her. The story also highlights the value of friendship and the importance of reinventing oneself in life.

The documentary follows journalist Annalena Benini on a journey through Italy discovering writers in the places that shaped them. The first stop is Naples, told through Valeria Parrella: an intense and complex city, where landscape, memory and daily life intertwine with literature and the identity of authors.

The story of Sandra continues, a Tuscan chef who emigrated to the United States, who established herself in Miami with authentic Tuscan cuisine. Thanks to her continuous ties with Italy, she keeps her roots alive, even cooking for Barack Obama.

During a visit to the CERN Control Center, one witnesses scientific research activity and ultra-high energy particle collisions. The account highlights the enthusiasm for discoveries, such as that of the Higgs boson, and the idea that the Universe is still largely unknown.

During an important evening at the Washington, D.C. restaurant where Sandra was the dining room manager, the usual chef didn't show, and Sandra found herself having to manage the kitchen as well. She had no experience there, and so it was somewhat of a disaster. The episode pushed her to learn, however: Thanks to the help of an expert cook, she began an apprenticeship, acquired skills, and started building a career bringing Italian cuisine to the United States.

Fabiola Gianotti's story combines professional growth and creative vision: from her beginnings in international protocol to a meeting with Barack Obama, to designing a space conceived to connect people and ideas, with an ironic ending related to the Higgs Boson.

Sandra tells about her initial difficulties in the United States and how, realizing she wouldn't get very far without knowing English, she learned it on her own. Starting from a humble job in the restaurant industry, she quickly grew professionally.

This part highlights Peter Higgs himself, and his winning of the 2013 Nobel prize in physics. This reflected also on Fabiola, who was the first woman to direct the Geneva Institute. Through testimonies and interviews, her extraordinary scientific career is highlighted, along with her modesty, and the account of her childhood dreams.

Sandra tells about her immigration experience to the United States in 1979. At first, without knowing English well and without technology, she faces many difficulties in daily life and in finding work. Starting from a simple job as a coat check attendant in a restaurant, she slowly begins a new life that would later lead her to become a chef.

Initially, supersymmetric particles were being sought, but without results, and surprisingly the Higgs boson was observed after only two years. Fabiola Gianotti's seminar at the CERN Auditorium, followed by an enthusiastic audience, officially announced the discovery, generating great excitement in the scientific community.

Sandra was born in the province of Pisa and tells the story of her personal transformation. She begins at the beginning, when she was a young girl growing up in Cascina, a town near Pisa. But she wasn't happy and felt like a fish out of water.