Year 2052. It is night. A car travels along desolate roads. Inside there is a Middle Eastern family (father, mother and daughter) the Italian boyfriend of the daughter. A police car follow the family and it makes them stop in a cultivated field. The policeman goes out and joins them. Apply for license and registration. He has racists and violent behavior towards the family man who is driving. The policeman returns to his car to check the datas and he comes back.

Although Pippo Genuardi seems to have cleared his mind by marrying Taninè Schilirò, daughter of the richest man in Vigàta, he is in fact someone who is not satisfied with his life…

Vigàta, Sicily, Italy, 1880. Shortly after the return to the village of Fofò La Matina, pharmacist and son of the late Santo La Matina, jealous guardian of the secrets of certain miraculous plants, the noble Peluso family is ravaged by a series of mysterious deaths…

Inspector Dario Maltese travels from Rome to the city of his birth, Trapani in Sicily, to attend his best friend's wedding. But tragedy strikes and he finds himself pulled into a murder investigation.

Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.

One day in Palermo and in the life of young boy Toto who is madly in love with the beautiful teenager Lina.