Six Italian directors narrate six different horror stories connected by a single thread.

Elia and Aldo are two ex clowns. They have been living together for years, isolated from everyone and everything. Aldo has been asking Elia to help him end his suffering due to his illness for a long time.

July 1944. San Miniato, Italy, is occupied by the Nazis. Paolino, the local tailor, receives a visit of the SS officer Rudolf Schmidt, who commissioned him a suit. One day, Lucia enters his shop. She is as friend of Paolino and a Partisan courier. She and Mauro, a friend of Paolino and the Partisan leader, will get married and she wants a new suit for Mauro. Lucia is captured and killed by Rudolf Schmidt. Now, it is up to Paolino, the tailor of the Nazis, to make an important choice...