Between March 2005 and July 2007, the local authorities of Padua evicted and closed the Serenissima complex made up of 287 28-square metre mini-apartments. In the 1990s, the Italians left and immigrants took their place. Overcrowding, squalor and crime turned the Serenissima complex into the ghetto of Via Anelli in just a few years. The voices of the social workers, engaged in closing the buildings, are mixed with those of the immigrants who live there, relating the daily life of one of the most sadly famous - but little known - places in north-east Italy.