Conceived at the same time as an architectural study and a detective story, Due was shot in Milano 2, a residential area located just outside Milano. Built as a utopian city by Silvio Berlusconi between 1970 and 1979, Milano 2 was his first ambitious real estate project. In Milano 2 the first private Italian TV channel was born, and became the bridgehead of the media and, later, political empire of Berlusco- ni.