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“Good,” he replies. “Blood is the only ink that sticks.”

He pauses. A fly buzzes against a broken window. mussolini: son of the century series

Mussolini closes his eyes. He allows himself one thing: a single tear. “Good,” he replies

Mussolini stares at her. For the first time, his eyes glitter. Mussolini closes his eyes

Dumini calls Mussolini on a field telephone. “The red flag is down.”

Mussolini mounts a podium. He does not smile. He never smiles in public—smiling is for shopkeepers.

In the spring of 1919, a disillusioned former socialist editor and WWI veteran, Benito Mussolini, discovers that his true weapon is not the rifle he carried in the trenches, but the wound he cannot heal—and the rage he can weaponize into a new creed. SCENE 1: THE PIAZZA OF SHATTERED GLASS