[1] The film is based on a real event involving the anarchist singer-songwriter Pino Masi and his friends Renzo Lulli and Fabio Gismondi in 1970.

The singer and far-left activist Pino Masi believes a military coup with neo-fascist roots is imminent, similar to what had happened in Greece, based on a "tip-off" he received from Rome.

After several misunderstandings, the escape ends at the Austrian border, where the three, arrested for attempting to break through customs, apply for political asylum but discover that the coup never occurred.

Everything seems resolved except that, due to their escapade, a Carabinieri officer was injured and weapons and drugs were found in the car.

Later, there was indeed an attempt at a coup on 7 December 1970, but it did not have any concrete effects on the institutions of the Italian Republic.