Titled Power, Tretti's sophomore film was a sort of Mel Brooks' History of the World, in which Tretti explored the history of mankind from one precise point of view: how the powerful ruled over the weak. A man confused as the God of Fire in prehistory; Jesus and Muhammad deciding who must eat what and when because of a power no one has seen; Tiberius Gracchus killed by the senate because he was fighting for the people. Tretti had a bullet for everyone. He loved to unmask those who claimed to be on the side of the less fortunate, showing the three powers - military, commercial and agricultural - sitting on three thrones and chatting on how they can suck life out of men and keep power tight in their hands.

Cambiano le epoche ma resta immutata la forma crudele di gestione del potere. Partendo da questa tesi Augusto Tretti analizza il sistema di controllo del potere in cinque momenti storici diversi: età della pietra, impero romano, colonizzazione del West, nascita del fascismo, e contesto moderno.