Francesco Comegna

A handful of recruits prepares for a war that nobody knows about the purpose or the motive. The field commander is a general who plays with a Marx puppet and lives in a luxurious palace that looks like a cabin from the outside. His orderlies are a captain who lives in Arabic dress in a curtain and a sergeant in training who does not shine for intelligence. Continuing training between various and grotesque accidents until the order arrives for the front. And then?

Leo has a dream: to make a movie in the great outskirts of the metropolis (Rome). He does anything for money, including selling cocaine. But his dream vanishes in the night when the police catch his friend.

It is the Sicily of the bloody uprisings of the Fasci Siciliani in 1893, shaken by class struggles, with the clerics on one side, intent on preventing the consolidation of the new liberal regime, and the ruling class on the other, squandering the sacrifices and merits acquired in moral disorder.