At Giunti Odeon the new film by Asif Kapadia, the Oscar-winning director, already the author of the acclaimed Senna (2010), Amy (2015) and Diego Maradona (2019). In 2073, the capital of the Americas (not of the United States) is New San Francisco, a desertified city ravaged by pollution, monitored at every turn by droves of drones, control cameras and police, even robotic ones. Democracy is effectively zeroed out, the authorities repress all dissent, power is in the hands of a minority of tech industry and media capitalists who hold the bulk of the wealth, control the technological revolution, direct information and dictate the agenda to political representatives. Thirty-seven years earlier, the Event occurred: a meteorological, political, social disaster. In a former Bloomingsdale's warehouse, abandoned after the human rights blackout, a few resisters survive, including Ghost (Samantha Morton), who after the Event has stopped speaking verbally, but whose voice-over guides the viewer. Ghost tries to hold on to memories, inherited from her grandmother, who stored them for her on analogue media. Because to erase the past from the human mind is to condition it, to destroy the structures of thought, culture, language, in order to mould a new mentality and guide the choices of individuals based essentially on their consumer preferences.l