The Time of No One

In this story centered around historical events, an American priest arrives in Rome in 1943 and finds the city in turmoil. The prime minister has been exiled, the king has fled the country, and Rome's native son, Pope Pius XII, is trying to stay out of the fray of World War II as Nazi soldiers pour into the Eternal City, threatening the pontiff and rounding up Jews. Without leadership, Romans called this period il tempo dal nessuno, or the time of no one.