- For nearly two years of exploring the "Great Ring Road's" almost 70km of looping highway, Gianfranco Rosi brings to the foreground the daily routine of ordinary people, composing the profile of a microcosm on the outskirts of Great Rome.
- After the India of Varanasi's boatmen, the American desert of the dropouts, and the Mexico of the narco-assassin, Gianfranco Rosi've Decided to tell the tale of a part of his own country, roaming and filming for over two years in a minivan on Rome's giant ring road, the GRA, or GRA-to discover the invisible worlds and possible futures harbored in this area of constant turmoil. Elusive characters and fleeting apparitions emerge from the background of this winding zone.—Anonymous
- Gianfranco Rosi's urban documentary portrays vividly the lives of people dwelling and working around Italy's greatest ribbon of asphalt and the country's biggest national motorway that encircles Rome: the GRA or "Grande Raccordo Anulare" (Great Ring Road). As a result, for nearly two years of exploring and documenting the almost 70km of looping highway, Rosi brings to the foreground the day-to-day routine of ordinary men and women whose lives revolve around this urban hideaway, with unexpected interviews which compose the profile of a microcosm on the outskirts of Great Rome.—Nick Riganas
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