Seventy years after his first film (Red Roses, 1939) and 35 after his death, Vittorio De Sica remains a celebrated, forgotten and perhaps unknown giant of Italian cinema. His irrepressible humanity, versatility as an actor and intransigence as a filmmaker remain in the shadows. This original and different portrait is created through stories from De Sica’s children – Emy, Christian and Manuel – alongside artists such as Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, John Landis, Ken Loach and Mario Monicelli.