A QUIET GRIEF

In 1938, a young, idealistic propaganda minister in Benito Mussolini's fascist government (Gianni Orlandini) meets a Venetian girl of patrician family (Gabriella De Luca), also a nurse in the Italian Red Cross. She is " the most beautiful woman" he has ever seen. He "wears good will upon his heart like a badge of honor". Enraptured they fall in love and plan to marry. All as Adolf Hitler places his first Nazi SS operatives in Rome to secure his "Pact of Steel" with Mussolini prior to the start o