bengasi (1942)

four human events that intersect during the nearly two-month siege of the anglo-saxon forces around benghazi in cyrenaica, presided over by the italian military: a captain who fights beyond the city and who has a wife and son in benghazi and who will lose his son after a violent bombing; an engineer meets a student and ends up, accused of spying, in front of an english court; an old peasant from veneto will have her husband killed by the australians and her son blinded by the explosion of a grenade; a young soldier is saved by a prostitute, but then he will return to fight.