[Machine Translation] Valerio Zurlini's masterpiece that juxtaposes war and adolescence! --In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, Greece is under German and Italian occupation. A young Italian officer, Martino, is ordered to deliver 12 comfort women to several units on their way to the Albanian border. The group gets into an old, beat-up truck and makes the long journey through a dangerous partisan-infested war zone. Martino finds himself drawn to a beautiful, quiet woman named Efthikia...