The need to trace a history, to retie the threads of a path and to test the meaning of a collective and complex work like that of the agency is still strong. Miller takes us into its life from its birth in 1947. In a gripping and ironic style he reveals the protagonists, the aspirations and projects that led a group of the most interesting post-war photographers to found a cooperative able to protect their work, and then, with the others who joined over the years, to resist despite crises in publishing, internal quarrels and personal ambitions, and to define the special role of the photographer: to document and interpret what stirs on the surface and in the depths of society. Above all we follow them in action, in the field: Capa’s Spanish Civil War, Cartier-Bresson’s China and India, the Yom Kippur War and the long saga of Vietnam, Dennis Stock’s portraits of James Dean, the set of The Misfits, René Burri’s meeting with Che Guevara, Susan Meiselas’s Nicaragua, the Gulf War, the former Yugoslavia and Chechnya in the 1990s, facing fear and the thrill of danger, chasing the news, evolving in style and language.