Paolo Benvenuti's film recounts the fifteen long years of siege inflicted on a group of citizens of Pisa during the war that pitted the cities of Florence and Pisa against each other from 1494 to 1509.

Paolo Benvenuti's film recounts the fifteen long years of siege inflicted on a group of citizens of Pisa during the war that pitted the cities of Florence and Pisa against each other from 1494 to 1509.