本部影片分为两个章节《失乐园》和《乐园》，讲述了女主人公奥罗拉（劳拉·索维拉尔 Laura Soveral饰）一生波澜壮阔的爱情史诗。喜怒无常的奥罗拉已经年迈，跟自己的黑人女管家住在一起。他们的邻居是一个叫皮拉（特蕾莎·马杜加 Teresa Madruga饰）的热心老妇人。皮拉常常向奥罗拉表达她的善意，可奥罗拉并不领情。在奥罗拉死后，皮拉跟女管家发现了她的一个秘密——一封她生前写给旧情人的信。皮拉决定把这封信寄给奥罗拉的情人，由此引出了奥罗拉一段尘封已久的往事——一段发生在非洲殖民地的难以忘却的爱情和冒险故事。...
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....
