Fiamma Fumana, the folk/electronic band based in Milan, and Mondine di Novi Choir, “eighteen Italian grandmothers wearing flowered dresses and straw hats," join together to re-live the story of the remarkable women of Emilia Romagna region in northern Italy. Assigned to weed the rice fields of the Po Valley during World War II, they sang to overcome the arduous, back-breaking labor and the separation from loved ones. When not weeding the fields, they supported the resistance against the Nazis, carrying secret messages to the partisans in their bicycle handle bars or in the curlers of their hair, or smuggling weapons under their shopping bags.