Archival documents, project documents and testimonials restore personal and professional dignity to nine stories interrupted by racial laws.

On July 14, 1938, the Manifesto of Race was published in Il Giornale d'Italia, signed by 10 scientists and professors, which would become the ideological basis of the regime's racist policy. This document was followed by the racial laws which aim to increasingly deprive those who do not belong to the "Italian race" of their rights. In this escalation of reduction of freedoms and subtraction of civil rights, on June 29, 1939 other laws were promulgated which govern "the exercise of professions by citizens of the Jewish race".

Engineers and architects do not escape this bureaucratic machine, ousted from competitions or assignments that have already started, cut short at the beginning of their careers or canceled from professional life despite decades of activity.