During a holiday in Recco, when the war had already started, the gang in which Enrico Chierici is in has fun on the shore, in a strange, flat mood for being July 1940. The hamlet of Recco, between 1943 and 1944, willbe heavily bombed by the Allied Forces, causing tens of casualties and - with the minor exception of religious architetures - the necessity of rebuilding its edifices from scratch.