The story of Salvo D'Acquisto, a young Deputy Brigadier of the Carabinieri, who, at just over twenty years of age, sacrificed his life on September 22, 1943, to save that of 22 civilians from Nazi reprisals.
During World War II, 22-year-old Carabinieri deputy brigadier Salvo D'Acquisto makes an heroic gesture of self-sacrifice by "confessing" an act of sabotage for which 22 civilians had been rounded up by the Germans, and is executed by firing squad in their place on September 23, 1943.
