L'Abbaglio

1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi begins from Quarto the adventure of the Thousand surrounded by the enthusiasm of young idealists arrived from all regions of Italy, and with his faithful group of officers, among which a new profile is noted, that of the Palermitan colonel Vincenzo Giordano Orsini. Among the many soldiers recruited there are two Sicilians, Domenico Tricò, a farmer who emigrated to the north, and Rosario Spitale, an illusionist. Landed in Sicily, at Marsala, the Thousand begin to fight with the Bourbon army, of which it is immediately evident the numerical preponderance. In these conditions, it seems almost impossible for the general to break through the enemy defense and penetrate Palermo. But when he is almost forced to retreat, Garibaldi comes up with an ingenious plan. He entrusted a diversionary maneuver to Colonel Orsini, who set up a column of wounded men with a small group of soldiers, to whom was given the delicate task of making believe to Jean-Luc Von Mechel, Swiss commander of the royal army, that the general is retreating inside the island. Thus begins a chess game played on the edge of the imponderable, whose final outcome will be paradoxical and surprising.