Christoph Hülsen

In her public persona, Eleanor “Tussy” Marx was a translator, actress, a children’s rights activist, a feminist and a persuasive labour organizer, a tireless powerhouse determined to carry on her father’s work. She held her own with twentieth century gods, including both her father and his colleague Engels. In her privately life, however, she was vulnerable and her attraction to the self-indulgent and self-important Edward Aveling led her into misery and ultimately proved fatal.

July 1944. San Miniato, Italy, is occupied by the Nazis. Paolino, the local tailor, receives a visit of the SS officer Rudolf Schmidt, who commissioned him a suit. One day, Lucia enters his shop. She is as friend of Paolino and a Partisan courier. She and Mauro, a friend of Paolino and the Partisan leader, will get married and she wants a new suit for Mauro. Lucia is captured and killed by Rudolf Schmidt. Now, it is up to Paolino, the tailor of the Nazis, to make an important choice...