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…

Credits

Gianluca Maria TavarelliDirector

Michele RiondinoGiovanni Bovara

Ester PantanoTeresina 'Trisìna' Cicero

Cocò GulottaDeputy Spampinato

Antonio PandolfoFather Artemio Carnazza