Antonio Ciano, the owner of a tobacco shop in Gaeta's main square, holds a reputation for his unruly attitude. The ex-communist fights for the recognition of cruelties carried out by the Risorgimento regime in southern Italy. In his struggle for this cause and against the establishment of the RAI and Mediaset information duopoly, he and two friends establish the pirate TV station called TeleMonteOrlando. Four years down the road Antonio and his comrades have become local heroes in Gaeta and even visits by the postal police have decreased. Ahead of the parliamentary elections in spring 2006, the inhabitants of Orlando are torn between the station's hope for legalisation, and the certainty that a Centre-Left coalition will not help the cause of the South.