Directed by: Roberto Faenza
With: Luca Zingaretti, Francesco Foti
Duration: 90 mins

An extraordinary, unsettling new drama, based on the tragic events that led to the assassination of Father Giuseppe Puglisi, a catholic priest, on 15 September 1993 – a troubled time when the Mafia stepped up its aggression against the state with bomb attacks in Rome, Florence and Milan, and also demonstrated its influence outside Sicily.

Father Puglisi (Luca Zingaretti) finds himself appointed to region where he grew up - the now lawless Brancaccio neighbourhood of Palermo, a suburb of the Sicilian metropolis. The crusading zeal that motivates his return, is tempered by a practical, unsentimental understanding of the locals and their ways, but despite this, he’s outspoken against the local mafia bosses, and even flaunts them in his attempts to help the kids stay off the streets and away from crime, and to make their depressed suburb a brighter place.