After Mussolini had lost power in 1943, a German mountain infantry attacked 4000 Italian soldiers who wanted to defend the island of Kephalennia. The Italian captain Amos Pampaloni survived the attack and tells about the past in this documentary. Many people think that he was the model for the bestselling novel and movie "Corelli's Mandolin". This documentary tries to find out who this Captain Corelli really has been.