Nanda De Santis

Un jeune juge mute dans un village de Sicile se heurte a l'hostilite de la population.

Sur le même palier, un curieux personnage qui ne tient pas à voir la police enquêter sur un vol qui a été commis chez lui et sa voisine qui va le faire assassiner.

Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.