A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

“A handful of condemned men on an impossible mission, against hopeless odds...”

Colonel Pembroke (James Coburn) is a Union officer with a dishonored name, and the only way back is to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army. He gets there with a band of convicts, Eli Sampson (Bud Spencer) among them, men who were never meant to see battle. Tonino Valerii sends them out under a bleached sky, and Pembroke has to hold the group together with nothing to offer them but the job.