Following the armistice of 8 September 1943, the Istrian, Dalmatian, Julian and Fiuman populations were targeted by the Tito partisans hungry for revenge. Among the victims was the young Norma Cossetto, daughter of a fascist official.
Italy, September 1943. After the armistice and the flight of the King, the war theaters of the North-East see the advance of Tito's partisans. At the center of the story, in this dramatic historical context, the figure of Norma Cossetto, a young Istrian student, barbarously raped, killed and thrown into a foiba by the Tito partisans.
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