Lorella and Daniele host a marine-themed dinner with friends at their elegant Catania (Sicily) home. Upon their daughter Amanda's return, the conversation turns to her. The parents notice that Amanda has posted a provocative video online and are baffled by it, but accept her explanation to avoid looking like boomers.
A redeemed ex-robber with a mysterious past, Dragan, and a young worker and father of a family, Daniele, share a passion for the game of chess, thanks to which they get to know each other and become good friends. When Mr. Assante, a wealthy and ruthless entrepreneur, decides to move his company abroad where the profits are greater, Daniele, unemployed and desperate for his disastrous financial conditions, convinces the reluctant Dragan to dust off his criminal past.
Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies…
Solo, an everyman who seemingly brings misfortune upon other people's relationships, faces his own fear of love.