We are in the winter of 1944 and the slow and difficult advance of the allied forces in central Italy is underway. On a night illuminated only by the moon, a small group of Italian soldiers joined the Anglo-American troops after the armistice of 1943. While waiting to attack the German line, deployed near the Abbey of Montecassino, the young soldiers are accompanied by homesickness, by the accusation of treason for not joining the Republic of Salò and the terror of German snipers.