Northern Italy, 1924. Redenta was born in Castrocaro on the same day that the socialist Giacomo Matteotti was killed—a turning point in the rise of fascism. In the village, rumors spread that she is cursed. Bruno, her childhood sweetheart who promised to marry her despite the consequences of polio that left her leg crippled, mysteriously disappears. When the captain of a fascist legion, known as the Eye, chooses her as his wife, she has to endure his cruelty—but she still strives to help first others, and then herself. Iris enters her fate—a partisan woman from a detachment led by the legendary Dias. However, Iris hides a secret…