The Bridge at Locri

It's 1963 and a group of young pacifists have signed up as volunteers to build a small road bridge for a community near Locri, a town in Calabria, southern Italy. These disparate characters begin as comrades working for a common cause, yet their ideals are tested in arguments over the collective good versus the rights of the individual, while personal desires quickly create further schism. The touch-paper is lit when one of the volunteers, Italian heiress Isabella, who has affairs with two ...