SYNOPSIS

Sicily, early 2000s. After serving several years in prison for Mafia-related crimes, Catello, a long-serving politician, has lost everything. When the Italian Secret Service “persuades” him to help capture Matteo, the last major Mafia boss still on the run, whom Catello has known since he was a boy, he sees an opportunity to stage a comeback. A shrewd man of a hundred masks, a tireless illusionist who turns truth into falsehood and falsehood into truth, Catello begins a correspondence with the fugitive, as unique as it is improbable, exploiting the younger man’s emotional emptiness. A gamble which, with one of the most wanted criminals in the world, is always going to involve a degree of risk…

Servillo is impressive as this slippery, slightly ridiculous but sharp-witted man</em>.<em> Germano is authentically dangerous as the big shot in hiding

- Screen International

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Venice Biennale 2024 Winner Pasinetti Award for Best Film; Lizzani Award; Rotella Award; Best Soundtrack; Best Props

Top local film at the Italian box office during first two weeks of release!