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The movie consists of three interviews with Toni Negri interconnected with each other, the first conducted in 1997 while exiled in Paris, the second in 1998 in the cell of Rebibbia prison in Rome, and the final one in 2003 in Rome.

For Toni Negri a 24-year long chapter of repressive Italian politics—including imprisonment, exile and house arrest—came to an end in 2003. "The fact of being a prisoner did not ruin my life. Naturally, I had the advantage of being an intellectual, but I still always come to the same conclusion: being a prisoner is horrible, but nowadays the prison is perhaps obsolete and cannot really do you any harm," Negri said on the last day of his sentence in Rome. His report on his life as a prisoner describes new forms of control in the penal system, the psyche and mentality of prisoners, and forms of resistance with which he was able to retain "the freedom of his spirit".

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Related material: Angela Melitopoulos in conversation with Toni Negri (Spanish)