The coexistence of the inhabitants of Palermo with the ever-present if indivisible Mafia is viewed through the eyes of young Arturo, who believes everyone who plays down the seriousness of the Mafia’s activities. Growing up, he idolizes Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, relinquishing his belief in the politician’s rectitude as slowly as he accepts total romantic failure with his beloved Flora. The Cosa Nostra itself takes great pains to change his view of the Mafia through a series of crimes that outraged the public from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Although constructed in the style of Italian comedy, the story takes on a convincingly dramatic tone as it presents the murders of policemen, investigators, and judges who were linked to the names of people who had the courage to stand up to the Mafia. As well, it uses period materials of the victims’ funerals to show the mass demonstrations of the citizenry’s anger. The director-lead actor approaches Arturo’s professional and romantic mess-ups with disarming self-irony, nipping the sentimental motif in the bud. This first feature from Pierfrancesco Diliberto, known by the pseudonym Pif, won the Audience Award at the 2013 Torino festival.