The film includes unscripted vignettes of ordinary Italians interacting with Massimo Popolizio (pretending to be Benito Mussolini), interspersed among scripted scenes.

Before passing out, he arrives at a newspaper kiosk owned by a gay couple and is able to read the date, discovering that it is 2017, on the front page of a journal.

The duo gather a lot of interest and acclaim in a short time, and finally, due to Mussolini's continuing growth in popularity and his ideas becoming accepted by more people, the ambitious Katia Bellini (Stefania Rocca), the new chairman of MyTV, decides to create a new television show dedicated to the dictator.

The show becomes a boon to both Mussolini – who continues to gather popularity and even catches the attention of foreign media - and to Canaletti, who is soon rehired and promoted.

Only a few people openly criticize Mussolini's fanatical populist rhetoric and the media circus created by it, as MyTV employees caution in vain against celebrating the character that much for the sake of their show business.

At first, it appears to have been a group of animal rights activists acting in retaliation for the shooting of the dog, but the incident is then revealed to have been orchestrated by Bellini, to shift popularity from MyTV's rival TV station.

Upon returning to that location, he links the occurrence to the legend of a door between the worlds of the living and of the dead, and concludes that the "comedian" is none other than the real Mussolini.

For example, Boris Sollazzo of Rolling Stone said "[The film tells us] how much the current world is fascist, hypothesizes how Benito Mussolini, in 2018, would be accepted.

[6] For Paola Casella of MyMovies the film lost the opportunity to be more critical towards Fascism and said "Sono tornato aired a month from the vote and is clearly intended as a pre-election warning.

It is not even politically incorrect enough to really make people laugh, limiting ourselves to painting our age as more confused than amoral, more solitary than egocentric, more tenderly nostalgic than tenaciously reactionary.

[7] Raffaele Meale of Quinlan instead lamented the mediocrity of the plot and of the scenes, in particular a scene filmed inside of a Neo-Fascist circle of Rome and said "Sono tornato can not handle the heretical and comic potential at the same time inherent in the project, and moreover chooses positions to say the least embarrassing, as the clearance of a phantom neo-fascist party (CasaPound?