During World War II, 22-year-old Carabinieri deputy brigadier Salvo D'Acquisto makes an heroic gesture of self-sacrifice by "confessing" an act of sabotage for which 22 civilians had been rounded up by the Germans, and is executed by firing squad in their place on September 23, 1943.
Giuseppe Fiorello
Luigi Maria Burruano
Biancamaria D'Amato
Domenico Balsamo
Eugenia Costantini
