Palermo, Sicilien, 1980. Tommaso Buscetta, en maffiamedlem, bestämmer sig för att flytta till Brasilien med sin familj för att fly undan det ständiga kriget mellan de olika klanerna i den kriminella organisationen. Men när han efter att ha upplevt flera olyckor tvingas återvända till Italien fattar han ett djärvt beslut som kommer att förändra hans liv och Cosa Nostras öde för alltid.

Historien om den italienske politikern Giulio Andreotti och hans påstådda maffiakontakter.

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.

Docu-fiction that tells the story of Libero Grassi, the months in which he broke the silence, the silence in which he found himself isolated, until he became an easy target for a mafia clan.

In the late-80s and early-90s, two prosecutors went after the mob in Sicily. Archival footage, gruesome photographs and new interviews are shown.