Carmelo Artale

En 1860, tandis que la Sicile est submergée par les bouleversements de Garibaldi et de ses Chemises Rouges, le prince Salina se rend avec toute sa famille dans sa résidence de Donnafugata. Prévoyant le déclin de l'aristocratie, ce dernier accepte une mésalliance et marie son neveu Tancrède à la fille du maire de la ville, représentant la classe montante.

This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her husband by fanatics of her father.

Fernando returns home from his self chosen exile in Texas to get revenge for the death of his siblings. Instead he tries to start a revolution against the despotism of the landowners, but his relationship to his old friend Cipriano, who had turned in the meantime to a simple bandit, destroys his plans.