The Second World War told by 7 direct protagonists, and within their stories a multitude of repressed tragedies. Soldiers, prisoners of war, partisans bear witness to a sub-history that cannot be found in history books. The stories take us to different theaters of war (Egypt, Tunisia, Kenya, South Africa, Piedmont, Tuscany, Poland); all have a connection with Sardinia: more involved than it appears in that great disaster, as recalled by the massacre of ’43 told by Iolando Fosci, when American planes killed 99 people and wounded 300 by bombing the town of Gonnosfanàdiga. The other stories take us into the battle of El Alamein, where Egidio Lai saved himself from enemy bullets by sheltering behind a horrifying wall of piled up corpses; into the “mine war” of the bomb disposal expert Francesco Cossu, in Tunisia; in the Resistance of Francesco Salis, the partisan Ulisse who died in the Valmala massacre, and of Vittorio Vargiu, member of the small band of Ariano, executed by the Germans and the fascists in Tuscany. The recollection of the German oppression by the Polish Leokadia Sas (Sardinian by adoption) closes, where the memory of the young Karol Wojtyla is also grafted.
