By order of Vittorio Emanuele III, Mussolini is arrested and Marshal Badoglio signed an armistice with the Anglo-American troops, decreeing in fact the end of the alliance with the Germans. Captain Vitale and his men are thus in custody because they were considered enemies of former allies. Meanwhile in Rome also Alfredo Vitale, father of Captain Lorenzo and convinced fascist hierarch, undergoes the new political order and for not to lose the esteem of his Nazi officer friends decides to make a plan using Riccardo Vollaro’s complicity, Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal Army who remained loyal to the Duce.

The story takes place in 1943 between Russia and Italy, both committed, albeit with different characteristics, in the bloody war. In Sibilevo, in western Russia, a group of soldiers of the Royal Army led by Captain Lorenzo Vitale, discovers that the Nazi allies have committed an infamous massacre inside a disused factory. The military would like to report the incident to their superiors but they don’t know that many things are changing in Italy. By order of Vittorio Emanuele III, Mussolini is arrested and Marshal Badoglio signed an armistice with the Anglo-American troops, decreeing in fact the end of the alliance with the Germans...

To demonstrate to the Nazis the contempt toward Italian traitors, the two friends procure to the German officials young Roman girls inducing them to prostitution. Waiting to move into the newly formed and safe Republic of Salo, for Alfredo Vitale everything seems to be going the right way but unexpected implications of destiny overwhelm his and that of his son Lorenzo’s life.

The people of a little village somewhere near Naples are true country bumpkins, no interest in anything but their own village lives. One day the government calls on farmer Esposito. He's told to sell his farm to make space for a new motorway linking northern and southern Italy. He has no intention of complying. His son Francisco is in love with village-beauty Maria but it all ends in tears. Frustrated and fed up with country-life he moves to Milan and fucks a few beautiful women. His doomed love to Maria and the death of his father push him into marriage with a woman he doesn't really love. In his twilight years Francesco starts an investigation as to what might have become of Maria and he finds out that she ended up in a convent. There she spends her days as a frustrated nun, grieving for her lost love.

The story takes place in 1943 between Russia and Italy, both committed, albeit with different characteristics, in the bloody war. In Sibilevo, in western Russia, a group of soldiers of the Royal Army led by Captain Lorenzo Vitale, discovers that the Nazi allies have committed an infamous massacre inside a disused factory. The military would like to report the incident to their superiors but they don’t know that many things are changing in Italy. By order of Vittorio Emanuele III, Mussolini is arrested and Marshal Badoglio signed an armistice with the Anglo-American troops, decreeing in fact the end of the alliance with the Germans...