En Italie, au milieu des années 70, Adriana, Barbara, Nadia, Susanna ont 20 ans quand elles décident d'entrer dans la lutte armée, de quitter leur vie sociale et leur famille pour faire de la révolution le centre et le but de leur existence. Elles réapparaissent aujourd'hui après de longues années de prison, elles essayent de raconter chacune de leurs propres expériences. Elles parlent des raisons politiques qui les animaient, des conflits, des doutes, des déchirures qui ont marqué leur vie de femme prise dans le tourbillon de la guerre. Un parcours qui débouche sur la condamnation de la lutte armée et la douleur des vies détruites: celles des victimes et la leur.

In Italy, in the mid-seventies, Adriana, Barbara, Nadia and Susanna were 20 years old when they decided to join the armed struggle and leave behind their social life and their families in order to make the revolution the centre and the aim of their existence.Today they have returned after many years in prison, and they try, each of them, to recount their own experiences. They speak about the political reasons which initialy sustained them, the conflicts, the doubts, and the moment of being torn apart which market out their lives as women caught up in the vortex of war. A course of events which ended in the condemnation of the armed struggle and the pain of the lives that were destroyed-their victims's lives and their own.