Two friends from Verona, Marco Furlan and Wolfgang Abel, were arrested in March 1984 while attempting to set fire to a nightclub. They were charged with 10 of the 15 crimes claimed over the years by the Ludwig group. With extraordinary writing, Alessandra Coppola, thanks to new testimonies and the study of the mass of documents accumulated over the years, digs beneath the surface, reconstructing the environment in which the killers were formed and tracing them back to the extreme right wing of Ordine Nuovo. Above all, she delves into their network of acquaintances (and perhaps accomplices), which leads into the disturbing and little-explored territory of magical neo-Nazism, between distorted cults imported from the East, hatred for ‘subhumans’ and the insane belief in purifying the world. The story begins with the most serious of the massacres attributed to Ludwig, six deaths in the fire at the Eros cinema in Milan in 1983, an attack that has been incredibly removed from Italy's dark history, amid shame and distraction.