It's the finish of World Conflict I and the younger Italian troopers are making their manner again to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a practice of violence and submission to the iron-clad rule of the church and its rich landowners. Households are determined, the boys are damaged, albeit victorious. Padre Pio additionally arrives, at a distant Capuchin monastery, to start his ministry, evoking an aura of charisma, saintliness and epic visions of Jesus, Mary and the Satan himself. The eve of the primary free elections in Italy units the stage for a bloodbath with a metaphorical dimension: an apocalyptic occasion that modifications the course of historical past.
