

An Italian proprietor of a squalid Djibouti bar collaborated in selling arms to Ethiopians fighting his own country's invasion but after finding his long lost son on the Fascist front he decides to choose patriotism over selfish profit.

Camillo Pilotto
Giovanni Bertani
Lead
Roberto Villa
Enrico
Lina d'Acosta
Pepita

Guglielmo Sinaz
Miller
Bruno Smith
Il giornalista Patti
Pedro Valdes
Salvador
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