In 1943, Edda—daughter of Fascist leader Benito Mussolini—throws down a challenge to two of the most influential men in Europe: her father and Hitler. She sets them a hard condition: to release from custody her husband, former Italian foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano, who has been declared a traitor. Her main argument is Ciano’s diaries, which contain evidence of the top leadership’s war crimes in the Third Reich. To destroy these records, Hitler and his circle are ready to do anything—even eliminate Edda herself.
On her side are the German intelligence officer Hilde Bitz and the brilliant socialite Francis de Chale: the latter’s home in neutral Switzerland becomes the center of a secret operation. Together, the three of them enter a dangerous game, betting their own lives and reputations in an attempt to achieve justice.
In the documentary thriller, Tilair Mazzio recreates this tense episode of World War II step by step, almost minute by minute, drawing on archives and eyewitness accounts. For the reader, it is an enthralling spy story and a cinematic account of love, risk, and the inevitability of retribution.