在这部归乡之路剧情/战争片中,前南最好的战争人性片之一, 根据真实事件改编, 编剧是两次获奥斯卡最佳剧本提名的意大利作家Ugo Pirro.
In Dalmatia, police cooperating with the occupying Italians have arrested seven young communists. Their friends decide to free them. However, things go awry, some of the police are killed, and the Italians extract brutal reprisals on the villages of the people involved. After the war, the man who led the effort to free the young men returns home to a mixed reception by the villagers, some of whom will never forgive him for the pain his actions have caused them.
This movie is based on the real events that happened in small Dalmatian town in 1942. Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths under suspicion of being resistance sympathizers. Outraged townsfolk organize the siege of police station.