Rome, March 1978. Aldo Moro, president of the Christian Democrats, has been freed by the Red Brigades and now peers with inclement eyes at his party comrades gathered at the bedside of his hospital bed: Giulio Andreotti, Francesco Cossiga and party secretary Benigno Zaccagnini. Outside, street clashes raged. In reality, Aldo Moro has not yet been kidnapped and is instead working to bring about the first unity government in Republican history with the outside support of the Italian Communist Party.