sentences:  It also belongs to a large genre of Italian films about Italy during the chaos after the invasion and double occupation of September 1943 - others include "Rome, Open City", "Paisà", "General Della Rovere", "Violent Summer", "Long Night in 1943", "Escape by Night", "Two Women", "The Fascist", "The Abandoned", "The Four Days of Naples", and "Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom".Along the Venetian seaside, on the morning of September 8, 1943, Alberto Innocenzi, junior NCO of the Royal Italian Army is shocked when (in response to the separate surrender signed by the Badoglio government in Cassibile) the former allies of the Wehrmacht surround and take by storm the base where he's stationed.Innocenzi, along with some disbanded soldiers, manages to distance the German troops and is thoroughly shocked when, contrary to his plan of finding a higher echelon to which to report, most of the men accept the fact that the war is over for them and "everybody should just go home".