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).
История семейного клана Удзеда, поданная зрителю вместе с историей Италии... XIX век. Пожилой сицилиец, деспот и тиран, запрещает своей дочери даже думать о любви. В то же самое время в монастыре, что находится неподалеку от имения, где томится девушка, монахи позволяют себе устраивать оргии. Об этом узнает глава римской католической церкви...
