Bruto Saraccini (transcribed novel by Paolo Volponi) wants to promote a democratic and humanist reform in MFM, the company in which he works, but he will soon discover that his innovative proposals for change do not give rise precisely to the enthusiastic adherence of anyone, let alone the Own president of the company, Ciro Nasápeti, or other managers, more concerned with profits than social justice. Thus, Saraccini will be immersed in an endless race of obstacles to nowhere. Disenchanted and Prophetic Satire, Capital Flies, the last novel Paolo Volponi wrote (published in 1989, five years before his death), is a dramatic personal account of its author (who was chief of staff and business relations in Olivetti , And then, for a short period of time, worked for FIAT), as well as the allegory of a world in vertiginous transformation, a world that is directed to that paradigm shift that years later would be known as "globalization". Volponi lucidly portrays the collapse of industry as a public good and the basis of a country's democratic development and the rise of a new political-economic order that privatizes profits while socializing the costs of its unlimited voracity, and also the advent of The era of financial capital, which triumphs over any other activity, as if it had its own metaphysics and a device of theological legitimation. Nothing that we are not suffering fully and painfully to this day, decades after this book saw the light. As Massimo Raffaeli aptly points out in the prologue: "Disciple and collaborator of Adriano Olivetti, to whom the book is dedicated, the writer intuits that the relationship between industry and the polis has been definitively broken; Pasolini's friend and traveling companion, is forced to acknowledge that all of Progreso's potential has been transformed into the sheer dynamics of development, as if the obligation to consume had replaced democracy. "