Don Giovanni Minzoni, much-decorated army chaplain during the First World War, supported both deprived people and the relatives of the victims of the violence by fascist action squads. He was against the violent terror policies growing.y perpetrated in the Ferrara province according to the orders given by Italo Balbo, head of the police. Because of his opposition he is first threatened by Augusto Maran, a local fascist, and then beaten up to death during the night of August 23rd 1923 by a group of fascists while he was going back to his own presbytery with a friend, Enrico Bondanelli. The film retraces the history of the crime until the trial to the alleged murderers in 1925 and tries to reproduce the specific atmosphere in Argenta during the Fascist rule.

LOCATION The film was shot in Argenta.