In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a northern industrial town devastated by a recent…

Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands….

A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren’t profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of…