Falcino, a small town in the south of Italy. No one sees. No one hears. Nobody talks. But everyone knows. And so they all become accomplices of a tragedy against women, against kids, against a family. A story of violence and slavery. Indifference is stronger than their conscience. Maria, a young mother of a family, lives with her husband Gerardo and her two children, Rocco e Carmela, on her father-in-law's farm: "grandpà" Giuseppe. Gerardo decides to emigrate to Austria to earn more money so as to allow a more comfortable life for the family. This absence will be the beginning of a nightmare that will lead Maria and her daughter to be victims of abuse of an unscrupulous ogre (monster).
Basada en la novela homónima de Federico De Roberto. A mediados del siglo XIX, últimos años de la dominación borbónica en Sicilia, en vísperas del nacimiento del Estado italiano. El funeral de la princesa Teresa es la ocasión para presentar a la familia Uzeda, descendientes de los virreyes de España. A través de la mirada de un niño, Consalvo, último heredero de los Uzeda, se desvelan los misterios, las intrigas, las complejas personalidades de los miembros de la familia, dominados por grandes pasiones y obsesiones.
