In the theater of a small village, rehersals are taking place for a show based on the opera I Pagliacci. There is no orchestra, just a piano and the singers. Amongs the few people in the audience there is the mother of the singer, a rich local lady and financer of the project, the sister, and a few other people involved in the show. During a dinner party at this rich lady’s house, a hiposis session takes place, where rancor and pain emerge from the brother and sister towards their mother and their impossibility of overcoming them.

A journey inside the most sensational exploits of the forgotten post–WWII Italian underworld. Thirty years of crime told through first-hand accounts, reenactments, old movies, news and other archive footage—painting the portrait of a country undergoing major social changes.