菲利普、詹尼、爱德华多和萨尔瓦多是四个想要成名的演员。他们决定参加一个表演课程，以保证能出演著名导演圭多·法利尔的新片。然而，课程仅开始几天后，组织者便携款消失。四位演员并未因骗局而气馁，当他们找到课程负责人时，四人毫不犹豫地要求退回他们的学费。而正当他们拿回学费时，一位当红演员愿意推荐他们，并需要用这笔钱来确保他们获得名导片中的角色。不过，事实证明这只是另一个榨干他们钱财的骗局。这次，四个人的复仇行为终于使他们出了名……

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.