Maxi - Il grande processo alla mafia

Palermo and Its Sons (1x5)

Exibido em:: Nov 20, 2018

The coming of summer in Palermo is always seen as a liberation, but Sirocco wind and the unfolding of the maxi-trial make the summer of 1986 a very different one to live. In the courtroom, after five months of trial, hundreds of mafiosi (from the big bosses to the picciotti) have already made their appearance. It is hard to keep track of all of the stories, which RAI journalists continue to produce every day, albeit with mixed feelings. Teresa seems to have found her smile again, after acknowledging her mother's reasons to stay as a judge, while Gianni is on the verge of leaving the staff, deciding eventually otherwise (with some help from his colleagues). These are also the days of the depositions of the relatives of the victims: from General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa's family to that of the Head of Police Mobile Squad Boris Giuliano, from the omertose widows of Mafia's excellent victims to the desperate mothers and the reticent witnesses. In the days when Palermo devotes itself to Saint Rosalia, women take the scene: the process lives its days of strongest emotions, thanks to the dignity of Antonia Setti Carraro (mother of Emanuela Setti Carraro, General Dalla Chiesa's wife), and to the anger of Vita Rugnetta, mother of a picciotto killed during the Second Mafia War (the so called "Mattanza"). Then, in the autumn of 1986, the death of an innocent 10-years-old child and the popular reaction to it seems to upset the balance between prosecutors and defence again, with lawyers ready to play their last trump card.