The film, starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave was released in Italy on 11 October 1990.

In 1946, Gesualdo (Nero) is a recovering Second World War soldier in a Palermo TB clinic.

Yet miraculously he recovers while all the others perish, including the medical professionals.

Gesualdo is the only survivor that can bear witness to the ordeal in the clinic.

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