In the winter of 1917, the Northeast Front was the last conflict of World War I. Mario Rigoni Stern's novel depicts a stronghold in Italy, located on the Asian Plateau at an altitude of 1800 meters. It's snowing everywhere; The Austrian trenches are very close, and you can hear the breathing of enemy soldiers. One hundred years after the outbreak of World War I, the masterpieces Ermanno Olmi and Tornarano I Prati left scars on his youth and the rest of his life, just like millions of others.