During the war, Alberto and Natalino were on the mountains and they fought side by side as partisans in resistance brigade. Now these two old chaps continue their long-lasting, strong friendship and the ghosts of mopping-ups by black brigades still trouble their minds.
Natalino lives alone in the mountains near an isolated village and Alberto stays in a boarding house where he meets another old chap, Umberto, who is forced to wheelchair. They make friends and one day Alberto discovers that Umberto is a former officer of fascist black brigades responsible for a terrible massacre and the slaughter of an old partisan about which Alberto and Natalino still have qualms. Alberto decides to tell everything to Natalino. They don't know whether to forgive or revenge.
Natalino lives alone in the mountains near an isolated village and Alberto stays in a boarding house where he meets another old chap, Umberto, who is forced to wheelchair. They make friends and one day Alberto discovers that Umberto is a former officer of fascist black brigades responsible for a terrible massacre and the slaughter of an old partisan about which Alberto and Natalino still have qualms. Alberto decides to tell everything to Natalino. They don't know whether to forgive or revenge.