At the gates of Milan stands Cascina Acquabella, a corner of paradise that will disappear in the coming months. The last descendant of the family who managed the property tells how agricultural land is surrounded by shopping centers and road arteries. In the words of the protagonist, Elena Galbiati, the events of her family relive, the epic of the Italian laborers, the Lombard solidarity tradition. And the friendship with the singer Al Bano Carrisi, who rehearsed in this place before reaching success. But if the farmhouse has managed to coexist with a cumbersome neighbor, the Innocenti factories, for a long time the main Milanese industrial complex, can do nothing against the unstoppable and elusive logics of globalization. Soon instead of the imposing poplars of Cascina Acquabella, streets, palaces and the second shopping center in Europe will rise.