Utopia deals with the relation between utopia and distopia in twentieth century European culture. The video demonstrates how modernity in the most prosperous of continents has produced not a utopia but a dystopia: a dysfunctional society haunted by many of the same specters of the war years. 
Vanzo’s work speaks to the loss of collective values, the demise of a belief in collective betterment, an ideal inherent in all utopian visions. She shows how today’s modern cultures no longer embody the promise of a better future for all; they no longer represents a collective, utopian, ideal, but a collective disillusionment – an attitude concomitant with what Susan Buck Morris has called the “passing of mass utopia.”

Ruben Gallo