Soon after her ‘big break’, Italian actress Nadya Cazan disappeared. With TV and film offers flooding in, she refused to accept the competitive and superficial values of the society they represented. Ottica Zero follows Nadya on her search to find an alternative way of living; a quest to discover a means to recycle the whole spectrum of cultures and political ideologies into a new way of managing a global society. It is a journey, which takes us from Rome to Venus, where 91-year-old social innovator and futurist, Jacques Fresco, proposes a solution.

Ottica Zero is a film about people who refuse to conform to the present and instead choose to live in their own concepts of the future, here and now. Instead of adapting a post-modern worldview with multiple truths, they look at the common needs of global society in order to provide people with the necessities of life through the universal methodology of science.

The film is structured around the RGB color spectrum and the optic definition of ‘white’; the precise balance of red, green and blue, which produce the illusion of no color. The term ‘Ottica Zero’ (the optic zero point of white light) is used by the main character, NEM, to describe the goal of her search, the point in which all humans are the same. Instead of moralist opinion, religious conviction or political control, it is these points of commons, both NEM and the 93 year old futurist Jacque Fresco holds as the solution and foundation to a constructive global society.
The film plays on the preconception most of us have of people with radical solutions. It seems harder for us to embrace positive visions of the future than dystopian criticism of the world. The seemingly utopian naivety is penetrated by the pain NEM has had to go through on this journey and the prize she had to pay to keep honest to herself. The sanity of the main character is polarized with the insane reality she, as all of us, is forced to live in, and the visual universe of the film strives to reflect the binary emotional landscape this creates.