Synopsis:

Agroup of militia policemen are sent to Nasiriyah to carry out peace keeping action as part of the Antica Babilonia mission. The group’s leader, warrant officer Stefano Carboni, is a man with great experience in foreign missions but also with a great loss behind him, the death of a son. Carboni works with his team so as to put the Maestrale barracks back on its feet, organize the training of the local police and man the regular course of the first democratic elections in the Province.
Having arrived in the location, the policemen realize that the situation is worse than they could have imagined. The population, lacking an adequate water system, lives under the perpetual blackmail of the local Sheikh who sells water on the black market and in the background pulls the strings of the town’s politics. Our men are quick to realize that even the only candidate in the elections is a candidate piloted by the Sheikh and that the allied forces do nothing to prevent this.
Therefore, they straightaway set about enrolling and training men for the local
Police, dedicating themselves to the search for an alternative candidate to the
one supported by the Sheikh who will be a true interpreter of the needs of the
townsfolk, and restoring the purification plant which guarantees the population drinking water. The candidate is found and despite the boycotting attempts manages to win the elections. In an accident caused by a military vehicle, little Hassam is injured, an orphan who warrant officer Carboni has become attached to during his time in Nasiriyah. The dying boy is entrusted to the care of Doctor Berti, a voluntary from a non-governmental organization, in the town’s civil hospital. In the meantime, nobody notices two Al Quaeda emissaries studying the movements of the Maestrale base and busying themselves with a truck and a suspect load.
The young boy recovers but Carboni has no time to look after him because he is recalled by his superior for more urgent tasks: in town, word has spread of the largescale dismissal of local authority employees due to the desire of the Provisional Coalition, and the new mayor requests the intervention of the police. Carboni, in an attempt to calm things down, realizes that the anger of the population is a dangerous spring in relation to the threats of Al Quaeda disclosed via a CIA report. The members
of the coalition refuse to become involved and leave Carboni alone to sort out the public order problem. But Carboni is not mistaken. In addition to stepping up guard duty,our men have the idea of setting up the distribution of supplies taking a container which has remained unused at the airport. In the meantime, while they search for Hassam who has escaped from the Maestrale barracks, the men come across the trafficking of works of art stolen from the archaeological museum in Nasiriyah. Meanwhile, new information from the secret services alarms our men in relation to a suspicious truck in the vicinity.
Then another more urgent matter comes knocking at their door: a cholera epidemic spreads throughout the town
placing the lives of many people at risk.
The cholera also takes the Sheikh’s wife,
six months pregnant, to the civil hospital.
Doctor Berti asks for the police’s intervention: only the transfer to a military hospital, one with adequate means, may save the life of mother and child. The hospital in Nasiriyah in fact lacks incubators.
Carboni asks his wife’s help, a nurse in Italy, who sets about arranging a solidarity marathon. While the police help vaccinate the population against cholera, Carboni finds Hassam and promises to take him away with him to Italy. But the morning of their departure, instead of the truck with the new convoy which will have to take over from our men, a lorry full of explosives arrives…