By means of a chronological arrangement of historical video material from the Istituto Luce archives, it tells the story of Fascist Italy's ambitions in Africa and the role they played in shaping fascist ideology and the stance of the fascist regime in the Western world at the height of the age of colonialism and aggressive European expansionism.
Riccardo Mei
Giovanni Pascoli
Paul von Hindenburg
Rodolfo Graziani
Benito Mussolini
Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
Adolf Hitler
Pierre Laval
Emilio De Bono
Giuseppe Bottai
Galeazzo Ciano
Pietro Badoglio
Achille Starace
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
Winston Churchill