Recreating a historical event that occurred in Rome on November 24, 1736, the film tells the story of two Jews who are arrested for burglary, tortured, and forced to confess. The Papal Tribunal sentences them to death by hanging.

Taken from the four canonical Gospels and the seven apocryphal Gospels, the film starts from a basic idea: the betrayal by Judas was an act essential to the mission of Christ and the salvation of humanity.