Through the eyes of Alexander Stille, author of the groundbreaking book Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic, this 90’s documentary investigates the relationship between the Mafia and Italian politics.
The film is the story of a huge victory against the Mafia, and of the men who made it possible. The central protagonists are two doomed heroes, the Sicilian anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Their spectacular assassinations in 1992 are still an open wound in Sicily and throughout the land.
