A road movie around Sicily in a red van loaded with "pupi", in search of new oral narrators to tell the other Sicily, the one that awakens through the universal force of popular stories.
Giusy is tired of living in the community where she grew up, in the indifference of the older ones and the hostility of her companions. She decides to cut the ties that force her and ventures out alone on the streets of a gray and aggressive Palermo. Her courage makes her come to the rescue of an old wandering poet who, however, disappears at dusk in the belly of a mountain. Giusy will find a new road.
The parallel stories of Moka, a young artisan of Moroccan origin, and Achille, an old fortune-teller, once a celebrity on regional TV. Moka studies and experiments with the secrets of metal transformation, while Achille returns to civilian life after a long period of imprisonment.
The Narrator
2017 will mark a century from the recording of what is historically considered the first Jazz record, but very few know that it was recorded by a Sicilian emigrant to New Orleans: Nick La Rocca. The record sold a million and half copies! Featuring exclusive interviews to American music critics, historians and archivists, as well as amazing archive picturing New Orleans at the beginning of the century, Sicily Jass takes us on a journey through music and history, telling the story of the world's first man in Jazz.
Filippo
Filippo is a retired teacher marked by pain over the loss of his wife. The man is determined to take his life, but someone knocks his door.
Padre di Tommaso
An accident involving a 16-years old prompts private eye Corso to an investigation that will unearth a deep web of corruption in today's Rome.
Ernesto
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
John Turturro goes back to the land of his ancestors.
Self
Mimmo
After twenty years in exile, poet Mimmo returns to his hometown Palermo, Sicily.
Puppet Narrator
Don Michael Corleone está envelhecendo e, com a ajuda do sobrinho Vicente Mancini, busca a legitimação dos interesses da família, em Nova York e na Itália, antes de sua morte. Mas seu protegido não está só interessado em parte do império da família. Ele também deseja a filha de Michael, Mary.
