Naples, 1944. General Mark Cork, commander of the United States Fifth Army, is negotiating with Eduardo Marzullo, a Camorra mobster, the delivery of 112 German soldiers captured during the Four days of Naples. Marzullo demands from the Americans a bribe of one hundred Italian lira per kilo, susceptible to strong increases if not quickly payed, for each prisoner. The intermediary is the Italian liaison captain Curzio Malaparte who is also given the task, to please the aviator wife of an American senator, to organize a Renaissance style dinner that has as its highlight a fish, a "siren" of the Naples aquarium which looks like a cooked child. Meanwhile in the slums mothers sell their children to the Moroccans soldiers and Jim, the young American liaison captain friend of Malaparte, falls in love with a young girl who will then discover being exposed by his father for a fee as the only virgin existing in the city. Malaparte moves in this hell with detachment as he tries to explain to the woman, during an orgy of homosexuals, that is the corrupting power of the Americans who has so reduced the starving people of the city hardly impoverished by the war. Vesuvius suddenly breaks out in an eruption during which the aviator undergoes a cruel rape experience from a group of drunken and upset soldiers, an experience that brings her to the same level of all the other innocent and defeated women around her. The film ends with the arrival of the Fifth Army in Rome through the Appian Way among the crowd that welcomes the Americans and for the enthusiasm of the liberation, a poor man ends up under a tank
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