Recreating a historical event that occurred in Rome on November 24, 1736, the film tells the story of two Jews who are arrested for burglary, tortured, and forced to confess. The Papal Tribunal sentences them to death by hanging.
Key credits listed on this page include Paolo Benvenuti, Giuseppe Cordoni, Gianni Lazzaro, Simona Foa, Emidio Simini, Franco Pistoni, Emanuele Carucci Viterbi, and Adriano Iurissevich.