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…
Michele Riondino
as Giovanni Bovara
Ester Pantano
as Teresina 'Trisìna' Cicero
Cocò Gulotta
as Deputy Spampinato
Antonio Pandolfo
as Father Artemio Carnazza
Giovanni Carta
as Felice La Pergola
Giancarlo Ratti
as Prosecutor Ottavio Rebaudengo
Filippo Luna
as Attorney at Law Gregorio Fasùlo
Maurizio Bologna
as Emanuele 'Memè' Moro
Roberto Salemi
as Judge Pintacuda
Domenico Centamore
as Caminiti
Giuseppe Schillaci
as Sciaverio Pipitone
Daniele Pilli
as Ingrassia
