Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, "Under the Purple Sky" is the triumphant, epic tale of the incredible courage of a young man in one of the darkest hours of history.

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with war or the Nazis. He is an ordinary Italian teenager who loves music, food, and girls, but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family's home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino ends up smuggling Jews out of the Alps and falls in love with Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.

In an effort to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier, a move they believe will keep him out of battle. But after a serious injury, he is hired at the age of eighteen as the personal driver for Adolf Hitler's close associate in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the most mysterious and powerful commanders of the Third Reich.

Pino spies on the German high command for the Allies, enduring the horrors of war and Nazi occupation while secretly fighting, his courage growing stronger from his love for Anna and the life he dreams they will one day live together.