Musim sejuk tahun 1917, bahagian depan Timur Laut, pertempuran terakhir Perang Besar. Kubu kuat Itali yang terletak pada ketinggian 1800 meter di atas paras laut, di dataran tinggi Asiago, diterangkan dalam novel Mario Rigoni Stern. Ia turun salji di mana-mana; parit Austria sangat dekat sehingga anda boleh mendengar nafas tentera musuh. Seratus tahun sejak meletusnya Perang Dunia I, maestro Ermanno Olmi menerangkan

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.