On 24 June, Edgardo was forcibly taken and brought to Rome, where he would stay in the Casa dei Catecumeni, the boarding school for the children of converted Jews.

Edgardo's parents, Momolo and Marianna, do everything to draw public attention to the case, arousing the indignation of European and non-European intellectuals.

Pius IX decides to stand up to all the accusations, personally taking care of Edgardo's education and having him publicly administered a second (canonically unnecessary) baptism or reception to dispel any doubts about his belonging to the Catholic Church.

Members of the Roman Jewish community coldly welcome the two, as they are afraid of losing the privileges granted by the pope due to the media outcry aroused by the affair.

Momolo, therefore, decides to treat Edgardo with detachment, telling him only that he's happy to find him in good health; in front of Marianna, however, the child bursts into tears and reveals to his mother that he still secretly recites the Shema Yisrael every night.

The judicial authorities of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which then exercised jurisdiction in the city, arrest Pier Gaetano Feletti and put him on trial in the Mortara case.

In 1870 with the commencement of the Franco-Prussian war, the French troops are withdrawn, the Kingdom of Italy occupies Rome and the eleven-hundred year history of the Papal States comes to an end with Pope Pius IX losing his temporal power.

One of Edgardo's older brothers, Riccardo, who is a soldier in the occupying army, runs to look for him and tells him that he can finally return home.

The film's closing credits state that Edgardo was ordained as a priest in the Canons Regular, worked throughout Europe as a missionary and preacher and that he died in a monastery in Belgium in 1940 at the age of 88.

"[7] The film was produced by Beppe Caschetto and Simone Gattoni through IBC Movie and Kavac Film with Rai Cinema in coproduction with Ad Vitam Production (France) and The Match Factory (Germany), co-produced with the participation of Canal+, Ciné+ and BR/ARTE France Cinéma in association with Film-und Medienstiftung NRW with the support of the Île-de-France region.

[12] In January 2023, outdoor shooting was carried out for two days in Bologna's Piazza Maggiore, including inside the halls of the Palazzo d'Accursio.

The website's critics consensus reads: "Based on indefensible truths, Kidnapped tackles institutional abuse with cinematic pomp and political circumstance.