[1][2][3] Set mainly in the Province of Treviso, the area of the Veneto region where Prosecco grapes are grown,[4] the film follows an awkward police inspector (Giuseppe Battiston) assigned to investigate a bizarre suicide followed swiftly by two murders.

[2][6] In the hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene,[4] the dashing, opinionated Count Ancillotto (Rade Šerbedžija), as unstinting in his criticism of a nearby pollution-producing factory as he is proud of his family's heritage of making the finest Prosecco, kills himself with the flair and style that have marked his life.

Police inspector Stucky (Giuseppe Battiston), an awkward outsider of half-Persian descent, is assigned to the baffling case in which the main suspect is a dead man.

[5] Inexperienced and in new territory, Stucky trudges through the villages' unresolved issues, before realising the key to solving the mystery lies in understanding the culture of the Prosecco Hills themselves.

[5] The Last Prosecco has been described as a story about "the inheritance of beauty and the value of quality",[7] and the conflict between greed and respect for the land,[4] that is, "those who are driven to exploit the environment and those who are called to protect it at all costs.

[4][12] In 2007, he moved to New York City, where he interned and then worked for an architectural firm,[13] eventually transitioning to a successful career in commercials, videos and short films.

[4] When asked what made him choose to return home to make his first feature film, Padovan revealed that he had been faced with a crossroads: he had been considering directing an English coming-of-age story, something like Stand by Me with elements of The Goonies and Stranger Things, but while on a ten-day vacation in Italy, his sister Mariangela suggested he read the 2010 novel Finché c'è Prosecco c'è Speranza by Fulvio Ervas [it].

[15] At the film's launch, he spoke of his determination to reveal the "small archipelago of gentle quilted reliefs of vineyards", his aim to "point the magnifying glass" on a geographic area, the Veneto, rarely explored by Italian cinema.

[15] Nicola Fedrigoni stated that he and Valentina Zanella had spent years looking for a project that would celebrate the Veneto region and its beauty with a compelling story, and accepted the draft screenplay without hesitation as soon as it was submitted.

The film eschews realism and ambiguity: Stucky's only obstacle seems to be his superior, but even this character in the end is also revealed to have a heart of gold, showing we are very far removed from any chiaroscuro representation of the police.

As far as it is an environmental film, Padovan lets the land and the people who live there speak for themselves, and it delivers its message with a softer, more humorous touch.