"The greatest cycling champion of all times", this was and for many connoisseurs still is, the expression used in referring to Coppi. Symbol of a Europe of Sports, which was born long before the European idea was practiced by nations and politicians, Fausto Coppi is

also a mirror of society and history in Italy and Europe from 1940 to 1960. Through film archives and "home movies" never seen before, we disco ver the great champion and his peers, stars, ordinary people, the orld of politics, fiction film and song.