La grande quercia

In 1943 Vincenzio and Maria take their children to his fathers Tuscan farm Vincenzio commutes to Rome where hes a physician and in the hospital basement prints an antiFascist paper His brother is in the Resistance his father supplies food to a local monastery where 12 fugitives hide All is seen through the eyes of the oldest child Paulo whos about 7 and the only lad at school who doesnt wear a Fascist Youth uniform For Paulo and his siblings its great fun playing with their nonno finding herbs in the fields watching a maids tryst with a soldier teasing a silent monk Then the war reaches the farm when Italy surrenders and the Germans exact revenge