Ugo Carboni

Petite fille, Silvia Hacherman assiste à une scène érotique à laquelle participe sa mère. Devenue chercheuse en chimie, elle reste perturbée par le décès de ses parents, notamment celui de sa mère, dont elle a poignardé l'amant. Elle se rend, en compagnie de son fiancé, chez des amis, chez qui elle rencontre un professeur africain de sociologie, qui lui dévoile les mystères de la magie noire et du vaudou.

La paix d'une région est entre les mains de deux peuples, qui se mènent une guerre acharnée depuis des années. Un monstre sanguinaire en profite pour attaquer.

Claudio Lacroics, a French-born prosecutor, is in Sicily to fight the Mafia. Every day he clashes with the beliefs of a community where the only rules are prejudice and silence. In addition, Claudio has married Lucienne and welcomes his sister Roberta into his home; she returns only to ask for money with her lover Richard.

The young Giovanni, who grew up in the provinces, arrives in Rome with the dream of becoming a famous journalist, but no newspaper is willing to hire him. Waiting for better times, the boy finds a job as a gas station attendant. One day he becomes the victim of an accident with the beautiful Giulia, who runs over him with her car. A relationship will arise between the two but Giovanni, in her naivety, has not yet understood that she works as a luxury prostitute.

Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.

Don Salvatore Anastasia, a priest in a seminary in Tropea, Calabria (Italy), gets a ticket to visit his brother in New York. He has never known him, because the brother emigrated illegally in the U.S.A. years before. Upon his arrival in America, he is greeted with much respect, as well as his brother, also from the Italian-American community of Little Italy. Enthusiastic of that, he decided to stay on as assistant pastor in the church of Saint Lucia and bring it to a new shine. Accompanied in New York, his last name, Anastasia, commands respect and, above all, opens the door hitherto locked: his brother, really, is the infamous mob boss Albert Anastasia.

The young lawyer Vincenzo, Lucetta's new husband, daughter of a building speculator, discovers, on the night of the wedding, that he can not fulfill his duty as husband.

A group of retired crime leaders is meeting to discuss the death threats they are all getting.