When in August 1980 Bologna is hit by a devastating terror attack, the city is stuck between the old-fashioned folklorist tradition of Liscio and the roaring rise of Italo Disco under the influence of American liberalism. Meanwhile, heroin and punk creep through a scarred city.

As Milan is hit by the bombing attack in Piazza Fontana that marks the beginning of the Strategy of Tension, Bossa Nova and Samba play on Italian radios painting the portrait of a vanishing country. The evocative South American rhythms with their uptempo saudade, imported by asylum-seeking Brazilian artists, clash with the violence and industrialisation clogging Italy. For the second installment of Italia 70 - The Sound of Political Dissent, Lorenzo Cibrario looks into the loss of innocence of a country.

Italia 70 is a series of stories exploring the music that soundtracked the Years of Lead, the turbulent and overtly politicised times that left an indelible mark in Italian history. Lorenzo Cibrario leads us through the maze-like alleys of Genoa among Lambretta-riding Red Brigades terrorists and mysterious Pakistani funk musician Ramasandiran Somusundaram.