1917년 겨울, 북동전선, 제1차 세계대전의 마지막 격돌. Mario Rigoni Stern의 소설에 묘사된 Asiago 고원의 해발 1800m에 위치한 이탈리아 요새입니다. 곳곳에 눈이 내리고 있습니다. 오스트리아 참호는 너무 가까워서 적군의 숨소리가 들립니다. 제1차 세계대전이 발발한 지 100년이 지난 지금, 거장 에르마노 올미(Ermanno Olmi)는 다음과 같이 설명합니다.

The winter of 1917, the North-East front, the final clashes of the Great War. An Italian stronghold situated at 1800 metres above sea level, on the Asiago plateau, described in the novels of Mario Rigoni Stern. It’s snowing everywhere; the Austrian trenches are so close that you can hear the enemy soldiers breathing. A hundred years since the outbreak of World War I, maestro Ermanno Olmi describes with Torneranno i prati his vision of a conflict that cost the lives of 16 million human beings, just as it was brought back to him by the memory of his father, called to arms at 19 years of age, to find himself within the bloodbath of Carso and Piave. A drama that scarred his youth and the rest of his life, just like millions of others.