An Italian woman and her daughter try to escape the daily air raids in Rome by heading into the countryside
Vatican priest hides downed Allied pilots and coordinates with the Italian Resistance
A mama's boy has great difficulties in breaking away from his mother so he can love a refugee girl around the time of the Italian armistice with the Allies in WWII
Germans occupy Italy after September 8, 1943, Italian soldiers head to the hills to set up a resistance movement
Italy declares an armistice with the Allies (September 8, 1943) and the Germans take over, putting the Jewish people in the resort Hotel Meina under detention
Massacre of Italian citizens (especially Jews) after the partisans attack a German SS company
Star player of the water polo team has a problem with amnesia and goes through over 20 years of Italian communist party history while trying to remember who he is
Sept 1943 Carabiniere Umberto escorts prisoner to Venice. His fiancée follows him; train breaks down; have to go on; armistice with Allies is signed & everything changes
Vicious reprisal ordered by Austrian Colonel Kappler in 1944 RomeI