In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.
The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him.
A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it.
