After a phone call has been intercepted (an industrialist is going to receive a huge amount of money from a foreign bank), Mafioso Luca Albanese is assigned to set up a big robbery. He and his gang (three men and three women) then hide-out in a remote mountainous region, but soon at each other's throats. Moreover, someone is killing Albanese's men one by one, leaving white paint on the victim's faces...

Cambiano le epoche ma resta immutata la forma crudele di gestione del potere. Partendo da questa tesi Augusto Tretti analizza il sistema di controllo del potere in cinque momenti storici diversi: età della pietra, impero romano, colonizzazione del West, nascita del fascismo, e contesto moderno.