In Mussolini's Italy, repressed Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in. As the reluctant Judas motors to his personal Gethsemane (the assassination of his leftist mentor), he flashes back to a dance party for the blind; an insane asylum in a stadium; and wife Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli) and lover Anna (Dominique Sanda) dancing the tango in a working class hall. But those are only a few of this political thriller's anthology pieces. Part of the series Learning Beyond the Classics: Early 70s Italian Cinema.