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…
Character: Giovanni Bovara
Character: Teresina 'Trisìna' Cicero
Character: Deputy Spampinato
Character: Father Artemio Carnazza
Character: Felice La Pergola
