A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he seeks revenge.

After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.

As soon as Pierre Toriel arrives in Neaples, he causes a feud among local camorra men and Sicilian mobsters.