A touching story in the storm of World War II. It’s the 1920’s. The fascist movement is marching to power in Italy. A young Roman worker is not silent about his dissenting, contrary, ideas and his opposition to the regime that is on the way to power. He pays hard consequences for his resistance.
A child lives in a little village, not too far from Rome, where a Fascist Federal Boss and his son lay down their personal law to all the inhabitants.
In the 1940’s, Italy’s entry into the war, is a prelude to a tragic adventure, its defeat and the civilian war. In this background a courageous and humanitarian priest, to avoid bloodshed, does not hesitate to hide in his parish the partisans being hunted by the fascists. And then later, shields the fascists to help them escape the vengeance of the partisans… all with the crucial aid
of a US Army Captain who appears to have knowledge of the history of the village.
Woven through a heartbreaking love story, in Back to the Past, the author relives the emotions of the tragic Second World War in Italy, from the beginning of the dictatorship to the regained freedom of the Italian people.
A child lives in a little village, not too far from Rome, where a Fascist Federal Boss and his son lay down their personal law to all the inhabitants.
In the 1940’s, Italy’s entry into the war, is a prelude to a tragic adventure, its defeat and the civilian war. In this background a courageous and humanitarian priest, to avoid bloodshed, does not hesitate to hide in his parish the partisans being hunted by the fascists. And then later, shields the fascists to help them escape the vengeance of the partisans… all with the crucial aid
of a US Army Captain who appears to have knowledge of the history of the village.
Woven through a heartbreaking love story, in Back to the Past, the author relives the emotions of the tragic Second World War in Italy, from the beginning of the dictatorship to the regained freedom of the Italian people.
