Gli anni più belli, film directed by Gabriele Muccino, is the story of a group of four friends, formed by Giulio (Pierfrancesco Favino), Gemma (Micaela Ramazzotti), Paolo (Kim Rossi Stuart) and Riccardo (Claudio santamaria). Their friendship has lasted for 40 years, exactly from 1980 to today, and has gone through a period of time, during which they grew up together, passing from adolescence to adulthood.

They faced beautiful things in group, like hopes and successes, and bad times, due to disappointments and failures. But this story of friendship and love is inevitably interwoven with what has been the history of Italy and consequently of the Italians in these last decades.