Maurizio Puglisi

Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies…

The last years of Italian judge Rocco Chinnici — who was instrumental in the battle against Cosa Nostra, laying the basis for the famous Antimafia Pool — before his assassination, as seen through the eyes of his daughter Caterina.

Sicily, 1965. Franca is being forced to marry her rapist to avoid becoming a pariah in her traditionalist community but she rebels against the established custom.