Set against the turbulent backdrop of nineteenth-century Italy, the film follows three young men from the south who become devoted to the cause of Italian unification. Across decades of sacrifice, imprisonment, exile and disillusionment, their revolutionary fervour is tested by political betrayal and personal loss. The film offers a sweeping, unflinching examination of the Risorgimento, questioning the human cost of idealism and the compromises that shaped the birth of a modern nation.