A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. "Paprika" is the name given to her by the madam.
In a small village in Tuscany, in 1939, all the people are looking forward for Mussolini's official visit. The Duce will inaugurate the village's primary school. Unexspectedly the corpse of a murdered baby is found. All the inhabitants will do their best to delay the visit and hide the murder.
Hitman Mark's affair with a prostitute entangled with her pimp, a drug lord, forces him to confront deadly obstacles and secure their escape while grappling with past trauma.