Paride Cicirello

Inspired by real life events, Madame Luna tells the story of an Eritrean refugee who is washed ashore in Libya and survives to become one of the most notorious human smugglers, with deep ties to the Italian Mafia. Now trapped in Italy and forced to experience the brutalising reality endured by the people she has exploited in the past, Madame Luna must try to find a way out before she is recognized and brought to justice. In the process she forms a powerful bond with a younger version of herself.

Inside a warehouse in Palermo, a group of people smashes a man’s arm to pieces with a wheelie bag packed with weights. This is the method used by an amateur criminal organization that fractures the limbs of its willing victims before staging fake accidents and raking in the insurance payouts. Vincenzo recruits the individuals from among the down-and-outs that haunt the city streets, where Luisa is a habitué, since she gets her crack there. Vincenzo’s problems suddenly get worse, though, after a series of mistakes shut him out of the gang, and Luisa is now his only chance: he convinces her to have her bones broken.

Palerme, Sicile, 1980. Tommaso Buscetta, membre de la mafia, décide de s'installer au Brésil avec sa famille pour fuir la guerre constante entre les différents clans de l'organisation criminelle. Mais lorsque, après avoir vécu plusieurs malheurs, il est contraint de rentrer en Italie, il prend une décision audacieuse qui changera sa vie et le destin de Cosa Nostra à jamais.