About the title
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish boy living in Bologna, who in 1858, following a secret baptism, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. Edgardo's distraught parents do everything they can to get their son back. With the support of public opinion and the international Jewish community, the struggle soon takes on a political character. But the Pope refuses to return the child. As Edgardo grows up in the Catholic faith, the Church's secular power weakens.