| Director | Renzo Martinelli |
|---|---|
| Genre | crime film, drama film |
| Runtime | 123 min |
| Country | Germany, Italy |
When you tell the truth, you shouldn't regret having said it. The truth is always illuminating. It helps to be brave.|author=Aldo Moro's famous quote and the film's incipt}} Rosario Saracini, a judge and chief prosecutor of Siena, is about to retire and receives an old film in Super 8 format, which was shot years earlier. The film contains footage of Moro's kidnapping which took place in via Fani, Rome, in April 1978. Saracini reveals this secret to his colleague, Fernanda Doni, and his bodyguard, Branco. The three passionately reconstruct the phases of the kidnapping. Branco notices a gentleman wearing a raincoat in the via Fani assault footage. In Milan, Saracini has the images enlarged so he can see the man's face. In the image, he recognizes him as Camillo Guglielmi, a colonel of SISMI (Italy's military intelligence agency from 1977 to 2007) who belonged to the clandestine military Operation Gladio. This leads Saracini, Doni, and Branco to start a new investigation twenty-five years after Moro's murder.
New investigations are carried out by Doni, focusing on the hideout of the Red Brigades in via Gradoli. Other anomalies emerge regarding the three committees set up by Francesco Cossiga, whose members are all affiliated with Propaganda Due (P2), and appear to be connected with the American secret services. During the investigations, Doni's children disappear, but Branco brings them home. Further strange events occur, as Doni loses her husband in an accident in which her children are also involved. After the funeral, Saracini is in the car with Branco, and an aircraft dispenses toxic gas over the car. The two escape the attack. After a phone call from the chief prosecutor of the Republic, Saracini goes to Rome for an appointment in Piazza delle Cinque Lune.; the building is now owned by the Senate of the Republic.|group=nb}} Saracini goes up the stairs and arrives in front of a door which says Immobiliare Domino. In the room, he finds Branco with other people. He now understands that the bodyguard is a traitor whose task was to spy on the investigations and take possession of all the documents of the . One of those letters is read by Cesare Barbetti. | width = 50% | align = right }} The film ends with a shot that starts from Piazza delle Cinque Lune, then widens from above to frame the whole of Rome. The maze of streets and alleys of the capital is highlighted in white, as if to form a large spider web, with the starting building in the centre. A famous aphorism by Solon appears superimposed. The closing credits are accompanied by an image of Luca Moro, Moro's nephew and the author of the film's songs, who plays the song "Maledetti Voi (Signori del Potere)" ("Shame on You (Lords of the Power)" on the guitar. The background is filled with images of Moro playing with his nephew, who was still a child at the time.