Cosimo Coltraro

It follows Francesco Giuffrida, an honest Sicilian politician from childhood to his disappearance.

An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness.

Rosaria is a young mother, wife of Tommasino Malarazza, downfallen boss of a famous Mafia family in Catania. Forced to marry him because she was pregnant, Rosaria is humiliated everyday by a violent husband, who spends his days drinking and gambling. The woman lives in fear and keeps her head down to protect her son Antonino. She can only rely on her queer brother Franco.

The life and times of Pippo Fava, a Sicilian journalist who fought the Mafia through his local newspaper in the '70s and early '80s, meeting an untimely end.

Salvo, a Sicilian fisherman, is devastated by the tragic death at sea of his child during a bath at the "glass beach" and to escape the unbearable pain he leaves his village and goes to work far away as a offshore welder on an oil platform. When he receives news of his father’s stroke, he returns to Sicily to sell his father’s house with the idea of using the proceeds to obtain shared custody of his daughter in Calabria. But here his life will change again thanks to the activities of the catwalks that cross the Strait and the presence of people and unexpected affections, in the landscape of the coasts and villages of Messina and Villa San Giovanni.