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…

Michele Riondinoas Giovanni Bovara
Ester Pantanoas Teresina 'Trisìna' Cicero
Cocò Gulottaas Deputy Spampinato
Antonio Pandolfoas Father Artemio Carnazza
Giovanni Cartaas Felice La Pergola
Giancarlo Rattias Prosecutor Ottavio Rebaudengo
Filippo Lunaas Attorney at Law Gregorio Fasùlo
Maurizio Bolognaas Emanuele 'Memè' Moro
Roberto Salemias Judge Pintacuda
Domenico Centamoreas Caminiti