在这部自由启示录犯罪片中,1989年柏林墙倒塌，东欧剧变。在南美雨林中参加“革命”的乔治欧，以杀害自己最好朋友的代价，换取了一本回到意大利的护照。回到意大利后，他受到一名检察官的威胁，要他把自己在南美的战友统统提供给警方，否则就要终身监禁。乔治欧一步一步地走向罪恶深渊。先是在一家夜总会干着贩毒追债的勾当，而后又与那名检察官一起清除了夜总会的老板。纠合了一群犯罪分子抢劫了运款车后，又将他们一一杀害。连那名检察官最后也死于他手。最后，与他订婚的妻子因为发现了他罪恶的一面，也难逃魔掌。他与竞选区议员的一名律师勾结，最终换取了法院不予追究前科的判决，成为一名所谓的“自由人”。
Giorgio Pellegrini, a former left-wing activist turned terrorist has fled to Central America and fought with a guerrilla movement. Fifteen years later he is fed up with living in the jungle and decides to return to Italy. What he wants is to lead a comfortable bourgeois life in his native country. Thanks to Anedda, a corrupt police inspector, and after giving away former comrades, he obtains a reduced jail sentence. Once released from prison he obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a "respectable" citizen, even if the way to it is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist and murder...
我们原想改变世界,最终却是世界改变了我们。信仰缺失的时代里，自我何为？。提问。
