八零年代初期，海洛因的買賣在西西里黑手黨各個老大之間引發了一場戰爭。身為黑手黨一員的托瑪索布斯凱塔逃亡到巴西。但在義大利，敵人紛紛來算舊帳，遠在他國的布斯凱塔眼睜睜看著在巴勒摩的兒子和兄弟被殺害，他知道自己也許就是下一個。他在巴西被巴西警方拘捕後，被引渡回義大利。布斯凱塔隨後做了一項決定，將徹底改寫整個黑手黨的命運。他決定配合吉安維尼法爾康法官的調查，背叛自己曾經對「我們的事業」發過的誓。

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

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.

When a young girl is kidnapped, ruthless police inspector Peter Nadler embarks on a race against time to rescue her.

Veteran defense attorney Konrad Biegler accepts the defense of a man accused of kidnapping a young girl. At the trial he must face the tenacious police inspector Peter Nadler.

Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed. When he investigates the case in depth, his suspicions fall on the woman who was going to marry the deceased.

Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.

Veteran defense attorney Konrad Biegler and tenacious police inspector Peter Nadler face off in the trial of a man accused of kidnapping a young girl. (Abridged version of Enemies: Against the Clock and Enemies: The Confession, focusing on the ins and outs of the judicial process.)