Giuseppe Scoponi

In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front.

A radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city.

In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours.