The return of the Red Brigade in Italy, after 11 years of silence from this terrorist organization, was a traumatic event for the entire country as well as for the families of the victims killed. When police superintendent Petri was killed, investigators gained a key for entering into the heart of the Red Brigade, eventually delivering a number of significant blows to the renewed terrorism. Narrating this story signifies trying to tell another piece of Italian history, without doubt extremely recent and therefore without the necessary detachment of a historian, but extremely deeply rooted in the ups and downs of Italian terrorism which have ancient roots, and therefore placeable within a wider context.