È notte sul confine

Trieste, Early 1970s. The first enquiry of Ettore Salassi, a journalist and Italian secret service agent, a restless, disillusioned man who, amid terrorism and attempted coups, ventures into the dangerous meanders of espionage.

In a Cold War Trieste, a border territory still scarred by the Second World War, the journalist Ettore Salassi, absent-minded and messy, but with an extraordinary instinct for a story, agrees to work for the secret service. While carrying out his official work as a reporter, Salassi gathers secret information about groups and individuals close to both Right-wing and Left-wing extremism. But he also has a secret: a murky past in the Decima Mas (a private militia, which, after the 1943 Armistice, took the side of Nazi troops and was responsible for war crimes), a quirk of stealing from bookshops and a weakness for women, who complicate his life. Salassi gets involved in a case he would have preferred to avoid: on the eve of the failed Italian coup d’état, a young soldier drafted in a barracks in the Karst region is found dead. Past and present ghosts blend into one another, and love for a beautiful Slovenian woman with a mysterious life leads Salassi into a dangerous maze where he is forced above all to confront himself.