
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…

as Giovanni Bovara

as Teresina 'Trisìna' Cicero

as Deputy Spampinato

as Father Artemio Carnazza

as Felice La Pergola

as Prosecutor Ottavio Rebaudengo

as Attorney at Law Gregorio Fasùlo

as Emanuele 'Memè' Moro

as Judge Pintacuda

as Caminiti

as Sciaverio Pipitone

as Ingrassia

as Attorney at Law Losurdo

as Don Nicola 'Cocò' Afflitto

as Deputy Ciccio La Mantìa

as Brigadiere CC Purpura

as Captain CC Lostracco