Palermo is a hysteric, she only loves her suffering, and when she is able to enjoy it, she transforms pain into art. With these thoughts, Manfredi sees her Sicily again after a long distance. He is forty-three well-worn years, the refined taste of the antique dealer, the elusive gaze and is tormented and nostalgic at the same time just like his city, where he returns at the request of his elderly...

The Chinese triads launder money all over Europe (but in the era of Covid-19 they turn to cybercrime); Ukrainian clans manage cigarette smuggling; Nigerian cults administer the prostitution racket and control the drugstore squares with machetes; Moroccan dealers transport hashish from Tangier to Genoa; Latin gangs transform neighborhood parks into guerrilla zones. Gradually, the imported...

Brucia. Le fascine bruciano. Gli arbusti, bruciano. La focara, cantando, tutto brucia. Lo sanno bene Mirko, Mauro, Sergi, Rizzelli e Nitto. Sono tutti lì, ai piedi del falò, in attesa che la pira prenda fuoco in onore di Sant’Antonio Abate. È il mese di gennaio e a Tumoli, nel cuore dello Jentu, tutti aspettano l’accensione della focara, una moderna torre di Babele che, invece di...

Calabria (south Italy) in the mid 80s. Fosco is a village perched upon a rock right on the sea. To reach the beach, you need to venture along a wooden stairway. Irene Rusto is fourteen and she always holds in her hands an orange notebook on which she draws her particular way of seeing the reality. Among the stern looks of the families, she lives her first love story with Rocco, the son of a...

Translation Right shared with Bompiani. Giustino Salvato is a successful criminal lawyer with an enormous problem of anger control which explodes in violent incidents and sudden flares up. Passionately fond of literature and motorbike, full of obsessions and obscure sides, he does an illegal service for some companies, his clients: he acts as an intermediary for the payment of protection...