在这部萨尔沃·达奎斯托剧情/战争片中,1943年9月23日，在罗马托雷迪·帕利多罗附近一小队德军，受到炸弹袭击，当场两人死亡。纳粹在村子里逮捕了22名人质，关键时刻索尔武·达奎斯托宣称自己才是主谋，最后光荣牺牲，时年22岁。
After enlisting himself in the well-known Italian police corps, "Carabinieri", and after becoming friend with the young Guido, at the breakout of the war, Salvo D'acquisto leaves Naples and Italy to fight in the African war, between Fascist Italy and Great Britain. However Guido has changed and he has fallen in love with a young African Muslim girl; Salvo, who has promised to Guido's sister to protect him during the war in Africa, cannot convince him to give this love up. Besides during a patrol drive an English aircraft throws itself on them and shoots them and Guido remains dead in the desert, preventing Salvo from bringing him back safe and sound to Italy. When he goes back to Italy on furlough, the sister weeps and gets angry with him and she cannot accept the love of Salvo anymore. However this tragedy opens the eyes of the policeman Salvo again and he realizes through the words of the anti-fascist friend Walter, whose dad professor has been suspended by the teaching at ...
