Simone Segre, a renowned surgeon of Jewish origins, lives in Trieste, Italy. One day he encounters the victim of a traffic accident on his way home. But when he discovers a nazi tattoo on his chest, Simone abandons him. Filled with guilt over his actions, he begins to trace the man’s family.

Alessandro Gassmann took Best Actor at Venice for his performance as the conflicted Samaritan in Mauro Mancini’s award-winning debut. A moral and spiritual enquiry into inherited contempt and the value of redemption, Thou Shalt Not Hate spins a parable from the paradoxical effects of guilt.