On the 26th of June of 1944 a young man in a German uniform was walking along through a Tuscan countryside near the Oliveto Castle. Six kilometers from Castelfiorentino he came across three young Italians who were returning home from the field. He told them he wanted to leave the army and asked them for help with hiding from the Germans. The three Italians took the soldier to the custodian of the Oliveto Mill where they lived. He received civil clothes and a shelter until the British and Americans moved in two months later. The young soldier was Wiktor Szoltysek, a Pole from the Upper Silesia forced in to the German army. The three young Italians were Luciano Martini, Alighiero Casamonti, and Sergio Giorli. The custodians of the Oliveto Mill were Adelindo Giorli, his brother, Sestilio and Pietro Bartalucci. 

Wiktor Szołtysek made a record of these events in a journal, which has been published in Polish and in English. The book presents his story a story of a young man who after witnessing enemy invading his village in Poland, was forced to fight in a German uniform at the age of 18. While in Italy, he deserted the Wehrmacht, and joined the 2nd Polish Army Corps under command of General Wladyslaw Anders. He took part in liberating Bologna in 1945, and then he traveled with the army to England. In 1947 he returned to Poland to join his fiancé, but for some undisclosed reasons he married another girl.  

80 years later Wiktor's sons found the offsprings of the characters of the Wiktor's story, and decided to create a documentary about it. They went to Oliveto and filmed a dozen of interviews with local people who remembered their father's story. This year on September 9th Jan and Henryk Szoltysek are returning to Oliveto to witness an important chapter of the story being written...