The recovered films form a varied corpus of images that take us back to Parma: its neighborhoods, streets, squares, and surrounding countryside. Still-living rituals (like the crickets in the Ducal Park or the market in Ghiaia) appear alongside others that have nearly disappeared (the circus in Cittadella, the San Giuseppe fair, traditional artisan workshops). There are strikes, protests, and struggles from the 1960s, new educational ideas such as those of teacher Ulisse Adorni using Super 8 film, and films made by students and families to capture places, faces, and fleeting moments. Other footage takes us into the Parma Apennines, through a still-recognizable landscape of outings and excursions. Female perspectives reflect a changing society, and stories emerge of bakers, mechanics, tram drivers, all united by a shared passion for amateur filmmaking. In this way, private memory becomes collective, reassembled into fragments that tell the story of Parma and its twentieth century.