Left-wing intellectual, he works as the head of cultural initiatives at a mining facility owned by CIS, a large company specializing, among other things, in the production of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and plastics.

With the help of his friend Libero, a miner who survived the accident but was left with a crippled leg, he plans to blow up the company headquarters in Milan, a skyscraper with over 20 floors.

A few days later, just outside a public bathhouse, in the middle of clashes between police and demonstrators from a workers' rally, he encounters Anna, a Roman journalist and member of the Italian Communist Party, who works for a local newspaper.

Anna, meanwhile, uncovers his true intentions and, frightened by their potential consequences, tries to dissuade him, urging him to attend communist party section meetings with her.

Having completely forgotten his original mission, he integrates seamlessly into Milan's upper society, bringing his family to join him and, albeit reluctantly, breaking off with Anna.

Faced with his profound transformation, especially under the betrayed gaze of his friend Libero (who came to deliver his wife and child), Luciano can only reflect somberly, concluding with a dose of irony that the only true economic miracle may have happened in far more distant times, when someone multiplied and distributed bread and fish for free.