Stories Set in Palermo

Palermo Sicily 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when after living several misfortunes…

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly…

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students…

6th January 1975 in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy) for a mysterious reason a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident.

Maria Pinuccia Lia Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach tragedy strucks.

Palermo Sicily Italy 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone on May 23 1992 and Paolo Borsellino on July 19 1992; and on the occasion of the tributes held in memory of both heroes…

In 1990s Palermo Pino Puglisi is a priest from the neglected Brancaccio neighborhood dedicated in helping kids to get off the streets and creating an embracing place of hope and solidarity in his church which means…

In 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of setting up a team which would later become the famous anti-mafia pool investigating into the criminal activities of various…

Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio from Palermo gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and…