Gianpaolo Serra

This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absence of a divorce law. Five scenarios with different actors portray realistic situations where divorce is clearly warranted but, because marriage was strictly in the purview of the Catholic Church at that time, which strictly forbade divorce, these people are shown to suffer the consequences in their daily lives. Italy got its first civilian divorce law in 1970.

Salvatore revient dans son village natal, en Sicile. Devant la corruption et la mainmise de la Mafia sur les exploitations agricoles, il exhorte les paysans à ne pas se laisser faire et à les dénoncer publiquement. Mais ceux-ci refusent, et la Mafia cherche alors à se débarrasser de ce faiseur de troubles...