The protagonist of the documentary is the many-sided figure of Alfonso Vinci (1916-1992). He was a prominent climber from Lombardia in the 1930s, literary man and scientist, legendary partisan commander during the Resistance and subsequently a pioneer of exploration in Venezuela and South America, where he went immediately after the war in search of new peaks and fortune. Vinci made his mark as an ethnographer and anthropologist, publishing a number of splendidly written books on the Samatari populations and the Cordigliera area. He made important ascents during his visits to the area (for example the north face of Picco Bolivar) documented in very rare period films. He was an exceptional figure, worthy of rediscovery and investigation in this documentary specifically dedicated to him. It has been made using extracts from interviews, splendid period filming by Vinci himself and previously unknown alpine scenes filmed especially in the mountains of Lombardia, so dear to him. The considerable quantity of material available, with footage, interviews, books, living witnesses, critiques and documents relating to the war period, has made it possible to draw up a complex and accurate reconstruction of a human and cultural adventure which centred on climbing, but which went beyond this and was enriched in the broader context of Vinci’s versatile and many-sided life.