Milan, late 1970s, the jeweler Pierluigi Torregiani is having dinner in a restaurant when some criminals break in to rob the diners. During the robbery one of them threatens Torregiani's daughter, Marisa, pointing a gun at her. In an attempt to disarm him, Torregiani is knocked down by the robber. A few gunshots are fired and one of the bandits is killed. It was not the jeweler who fired the gun he always has with him, but many newspapers accuse him of being a bourgeois executioner. The political tension of the time made him a perfect target for the PAC, a group of terrorists led by Cesare Battisti, who identified him as a culprit to be punished.