Conte’s experience as a bankruptcy clerk, inspired him with sympathetic songs about born losers, and his acute observations on post-war Italy and the human condition led him to develop a highly personal style. It was not until the early 1970’s and he was in his 40’s, that he was convinced by a record producer to perform his own songs. Over 10 years he built up a cult following in his home country, but it was a string of concerts in Paris in the early 80’s that established him with a wide audience and as an international star with career sales of over 10 million albums.

Over one year we follow Paolo Conte in Italy and to London, New York, Boston and Monaco. There are interviews with Italy’s leading columnist Curzio Maltese; Paolo’s brother Giorgio who is an established singer/songwriter in Italy; Caterina Caselli who performed Conte’s songs as a singer in the 60’s and as a record company executive was instrumental in establishing Conte and more recently the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli; Alda Gandini, the record executive who boosted Conte’s popularity around the world; Comedian and Oscar winning actor and director Roberto Benigni, and movie director Enzo D’Alo who commissioned Conte to score the soundtrack to his animation movie ‘Freccia Azzurro’ (The Blue Arrow.)