First Episode
1956. A Mascalucia, Sicily, the Fortebracci gathered around the elderly and authoritarian householder Rocco Fortebracci.
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Pasquale Fortebracci (Gerardo Amato), and decent man of sound principles, he tries to persuade his wife Ersilia (Virna Lisi), a dreamer and progressive, to go to the birthday of his father Rocco, with whom he is on good terms because it is an old-fashioned man. But just as reluctant Ersilia dancing with Rocco, he died of a heart attack.
Ersilia Pasquale to sell the land convinced of the deceased father and, with the proceeds, leaving for Turin, where he will begin a new life. It is organized the removal of the entire family in Turin helped by her cousin Nino Vitale (Antonio Giuliani), who presents them immediately or Pippo 'calabrese (Giancarlo Giannini), ambiguous owner of the new district.
Pasquale has a small sum to invest and trust the advice of Nino: With the help of Don Pippo will open an appliance store. The money, however, are not enough: for this he borrows money from the same Goofy, taking the rest of the family in the dark.
Meanwhile, Ersilia is happy with the new system and has great things in mind for her children. Antonio, called Tonio (Gabriel Garko), the eldest son of the womanizing Fortebracci and normal with the study, makes friends with bullies Michael Rapture called for his job "Micky the candle" (Renato Marotta), and Richard Zito, said the his job "the singer Ricky" (Cristiano Pasca), while the brother of Tonio, Saints (Giuseppe Zeno), more shy and more studious, he jumps on the books to get the diploma. Both are fascinated by Olga (Serena Autieri), the blonde and haughty neighbor who works as a mannequin in a shop in the center, which, however, seems to prefer the Saints.
In the district also lives the beautiful, sweet and sensitive Melina (Cosima Coppola), only daughter of Don Pippo, and her best friend in (Manuela Arcuri), a beautiful young and emancipated originally from Rome, in conflict with his mother and stepfather .
The shop of Fortinbras is ready when, in the night, unknown thieves steal the goods that Pasquale had not yet secured. Goofy or 'Calabrese refuses to defer payments due to him and the family Fortebracci is broke. Desperate for lightness and for having committed deprived of any future children, Pasquale hangs himself after burning the bills signed Don Pippo. Find the body is Ersilia, which, in shock, goes mad.
Distraught, Tonio decides to avenge his father's death. Soon discovers a fraud concocted by Don Pippo same with the complicity of Nino Vitale and tells Ricky and Micky his plan: Goofy or deprive 'Calabrian honor and respect, things that are more expensive, through his daughter Melina. Meanwhile, Tonio decides to go and meet a boss, Don Rosario Liberati, allied with a more powerful, Don Calogero Rocca.
Second Episode
Tonio seduces Melina, illudendola so that she will give up to get pregnant. Got the goal, abandons herself avenging his father Pasquale, while Don Pippo is abandoned by all because his daughter has been dishonored.
Meanwhile, Tonio, to get off the pavement and have a damn bit 'of money, unfortunately, can not help but quickly climb the rungs of the career criminal, robbing along with Micky and Ricky truck drivers and, for their actions, will be renamed the Police " the band of Tir ." In fact, the three decide to hand over part of their loot to Don Rosario (Luigi Maria Burruano), the Sicilian boss in contact with the powerful Don Calogero, who turns Tonio his right arm instead of Goofy or 'Calabrese, the which was then corrupted in secret.
Saints, however, has left for the military service, during which continues to study law and maintains an affectionate correspondence with Olga. The boy is sincerely and genuinely in love and is reciprocated, and dreams of building a family on his return. Olga is under pressure, however, the mother who wants her daughter to marry a rich man, and thus ends up giving the court of Edward Hall (Attilio Fontana), spoiled scion of the richest entrepreneur of Turin. Edward promised to Olga that he will marry her and she leaves the Saints, which reacts with anger.
Saints consoles himself with the study of law and with the friendship of Caesar Politi (John Scifoni), the son of a prominent lawyer, but did not really want to study.
Ersilia is no longer able to look after herself and Tonio makes shelter in a prestigious private clinic, but is desperate to realize that her mother no longer recognizes him.
Goofy or 'Calabrese, looking for revenge because now mocked by the whole neighborhood, shoots Tonio during the inauguration of the supermarket, opened by young Fortinbras in company with Don Rosario, who has taken the place of his store.
Third Episode
Tonio was taken to hospital because of gunshot wounds and saved while the revenge of Don Rosario strikes on the now isolated Goofy or 'Calabrese, who is beaten by two gangsters and hanged from a tree in the countryside.
Melina has not lost hope that Tonio could become a father to his newborn daughter, because he did not kill Don Pippo, and this leads to his bedside the little Antonia with the help of the Saints. Tonio reacts badly and the casts and Melina is now alone and despised by all. Saints argues violently with his brother and offered to take care of her as the lawyer Politi, father of his friend Caesar, he took him as a practitioner in his office, but she refuses.
Meanwhile, the alcoholic is raped by her stepfather and after the violence, wounds him with a knife is stopped and the process is betrayed by her mother, confirming the false testimony of the rapist husband. In is sentenced to prison for attempted murder and discovers she is pregnant, which throws her into a deep depression, refusing all contact with Melina.
Don Rosario gives Tonio and cabrio car, in the trunk, makes him find Nino Vitale and tied, while the man is killed hanged, reveals that even Don Rosario was agreed in the scam against Pasquale Fortebracci and he had his share gain. Don Rosario promises to remedy so let him know Don Calogero, finally.
Don Rosario involves Tonio, looking for revenge against him, in his activities entrusting the management of a nightclub. One evening there also comes Olga, whose relationship with Edward is the last stop because the promised marriage does not seem to ever get. Tonio made her understand that it is still interested in her, but Olga refuses.
Santi wife Melina and graduated while Ersilia flees from the clinic and dies by accident, hit by a truck while crossing the street.
Fourth Episode
The two brothers Fortebracci gather at the tomb of Ersilia and Saints presents Melina Tonio as his wife.
In the meanwhile, she gives birth in prison and immediately gives the baby up for adoption.
Don Rosario leads Tonio in Sicily, in the presence of the powerful Don Calogero (Pino Caruso), and the old boss is conquered by the mentality of the young Tonio rampant. Together they decide to invest in the property market, provoking the ire of Don Rosario, who disagrees and feels put in a bad light.
Tonio tries to bribe the banker Cipriani, but he refuses to do business with a Southerner. So Tonio blackmails him with photos scandal and convinces him to help him in the property market.
The lawyer Politi entrusts a result of fraudulent bankruptcy of Cipriani at Santi and he easily won the arresting Cipriani, obtaining personal and professional satisfaction, but something is wrong: the key witness is corrupt, Politi was aware of the process and was a farce; Santi is furious, threatens complaints about Politi and abandons everything, returning from Melina approving his decision and tells him to be pregnant again, their real son Salvatore, who was born and raised along with Antonia.
In falls in love with his cellmate Maria (Silvia De Santis), a thief Neapolitan, which makes plans for the future: she comes first, but in the promises that will be waiting to fulfill their dreams.
Olga confronts the father of Edward, Xavier Sala (Stefano Davanzati), on the issue of marriage. The entrepreneur, after a dinner, is so conquered by the charm of Olga to propose to marry him and she, of course, he agrees. Tonio learns from television the wedding of the year and feels a great anger.
In he released from prison and finds Maria, with whom he began a new life of petty theft and gimmicks on the Adriatic coast, robbing innocent tourists. Some time after she flees abroad with a lifeguard, bringing with them the money until then accumulated.
In finds himself alone and desperate and he returned to Turin, starting to prostitution to survive. Just the street meets Tonio who offers to help him in his shady dealings behind generous compensation; It proposes to become the madam of a luxury villa in Desenzano del Garda where recruit prostitutes to entertain politicians and businessmen, filming meetings and using them to blackmail and extortion. In accepting the job.
Tonio is the tomb of Ersilia and meets Santi, who announces that he became a judge and who will fight criminals like him.
Fifth Episode
In use the money earned to pay a private detective to track down the child born of her in prison.
Years passes.
Santi meanwhile makes a raid in the night club and discovers a Don Rosario illegal gambling. With suspicion by colleagues after this action, the Saints accepts the proposal of the prosecutor Julius Donelli to join the anti-mafia pool recently formed to uncover links between banks in northern Italy and the Sicilian Mafia.
Tonio instead gets the contract for the construction of a hospital after blackmailing the senator Galimberti, frequent visitor of the brothel run by Nella. The thing is to go on a rampage while Don Calogero Don Rosario is left pleased, but tells Tonio not to take other steps like that without warning.
Xavier Sala Olga and organize a reception, where there is all that counts and even Turin Exquisite Ippolito, the director of the Tour of Milan involving little room in business legal. There is also the senator Galimberti, accompanied by Tony, with embarrassment and discomfort of Olga.
He finds in her child, which was adopted by a wealthy family in Turin, designs and escape: steal from the safe of the villa of Desenzano del Garda the precious home movie erotic concerns Senator Galimberti and hides it in a safe, entrusting the key to Melina, who has not seen for years, without giving explanations; In fact, he wants to fit in with the complicity of Tonio Micky, past the "dependencies" Don Rosario, then do kidnap her baby from detective and expatriates. But in love with Tonio, he decided at the last minute not to hand over the home video to Micky and he invests it with his car, killing her. At his funeral, Melina listens, unseen, a dialogue between Tonio and Micky on home video disappeared and realizes you are holding something hot.
The surveys involve Saints Xavier Sala, who was arrested because he accepted money from the mafia to revive its industry, on the verge of bankruptcy. Olga tries to obtain the release of her husband by relying on the old feeling between her and the Saints, but he is now a man of law and can not promise anything, except to convince Hall to collaborate with the justice system and in return receive protection. Shortly before the interrogation crucial, however, Xavier Sala is attacked and killed in prison by Saruzzo, the killer of Don Rosario and, in secret, Don Calogero.
Tonio, meanwhile, knows that Olga is left alone and that the gangsters have been targeted because of her husband's activities. To protect her, Don Calogero announced that Olga became his wife, and will become part of the Mafia family.
Sixth Episode
Olga is unhappy because of forced marriage and become alcoholic, publicly humiliating Tonio in the night club of Don Rosario.
Tonio Olga decides to punish for the offense but discovers that she is pregnant by him. Now he is overjoyed and promises his wife that will live in Switzerland under a false name, in exchange for which she detoxify alcohol.
Melina has to live alone and undercover in a villa of Perla, a village on Lake Garda, with children growing up away from the Saints, who in the meantime he had arrested the banker who Exquisite Ippolito, decided to cooperate, it was miraculously saved to an attack carried out by a group of gangsters while being escorted to the courthouse.
Tonio accidentally discovers with a lighter that Micky and is complicit in the killing of Don Rosario to betray him. Furious, kills him. When he returns home, Olga understands everything and escapes from their villa. The next day back to get his things and announces to want to leave and that Tonio had an abortion, not to give birth to another gangster. Tonio not bring himself to stop it.
Meanwhile, Melina, on a trip with his children, he discovers that the safes of the post of Desenzano del Garda have a key identical to the one that gave him the secret. She discovers the pornographic home movie on the senator Galimberti, recently became Minister of Justice.
Don Rosario instead finds himself driving the corpse of Micky and, terrified, called Don Calogero, threatening to collaborate with justice if not kill Tonio.
The dome convene Tonio Mafia in Sicily: the order is to stop the Saints Fortebracci judge, who is giving too many problems to the organization.
Don Rosario meanwhile is just in time arrested by the Saints in his mansion, while trying to escape in a car, which exploded when one of his men had risen: it is clear that Don Calogero the boss wanted him dead because he had made against Tonio, but he had managed to kill only one of his men.
Don Calogero is kidnap little Antonia Fortebracci to force the judge to surrender to them and Melina, desperate, delivery to the home video Saints Minister Galimberti because the exchanges with the life of her daughter. The court, on the advice of Melina, met after so many years his brother Tonio and set off for Sicily. The meeting with Don Calogero and his men takes place in an abandoned quarry in Sirenuse, a Sicilian town, in the rain. The boss tells Tonio that it was he who put the bomb under the car of Don Rosario and that home movie that has no value because Galimberti has resigned and became associate justice because of pressure from the prosecutor Donelli, who had received Saints from some parts of the pornographic film. So Don Calogero sends Saruzzo forward to take the Saints without the exchange. Hearing, however, the screams of the little Antonia in the car and the fears of Saints, the good Tonio chooses his real family instead of Don Calogero. He shoots to the head and kills Saruzzo, takes hostage Don Calogero throat forcing his minions not to shoot and sends Saints to take the child. But Calogero hits Tonio with a knife hidden in his jacket, so the young man is shot repeatedly by picciotti and falls to the ground. However, still he managed to shoot and kill Don Calogero and some thugs, falling from the wall of the quarry and die as their boss under a barrage of bullets. Santi, brought Antonia safe thanks to Tony, grab the gun of his brother dying and revenge killing, in self-defense, the last remaining picciotti. Now we just have to want to tell Tonio well and cry for him, while Melina embraces Antonia, weeping with joy for her, but grief for his brother in law.
Olga learns of the death of Tonio Fortebracci from a newspaper, while back to do his work and admires a mountain panorama from a terrace, stroking the belly: it is clear that not aborted.