The Story of two brothers growing up in Italy in the 1960s and 70s who are diametrically oposed - physically, emotionally and even politically. Yet whilst their lives take completly different routes, there is an underlying love affection which stops them from breaking all contact.
As they get older, however, the polarisation of their political opinions (one becoms a fascist, the other an extreme right-wing acttivist with connections to terrorist circles) test their familial bond to the very limit.