在这部埃德加多·摩尔塔拉的绑架剧情片中,影片根据同名小说改编,讲述1858年发生在罗马的一起天主教迫害犹太人的事件。
The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara recounts the story of a young Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy in 1858 who, having been secretly baptized, is forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents' struggle to free their son becomes part of a larger political battle that pits the Papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.