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- A young poor girl receives a marriage proposal from a mafia novice. She's going to refuse, but he's going to insist - at all cost.
- "I cento passi" (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos' house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist who in the late seventies (when almost nobody dared to speak about the Mafia, and several politicians maintained that the Mafia did not even exist) repeatedly denounced Badalamenti's criminal activities and the whole Mafia system, by using a small local radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour. In 1978 Peppino (30 years old) was killed by an explosion. The police archived the case as an accident or a suicide, but his friends never accepted this conclusion. Note: This is a true story. More than twenty years after Peppino's death, the case has been re-opened. Tano Badalamenti, meanwhile, has been convicted in the USA for drug trafficking.
- A Man, a doctrine. We went to Cinisi to look for people who had followed Peppino Impastato's life and search: his mother Felicia Bortolotta for whom her son only "wanted to do the right thing", the friends in the associations "Music and Culture", "Om Group", "Radio Aut" with whom he fought resignation, the apathetic conspiracy of silence, trying to pass on the strength of the community and the weapons of culture. We filmed everything that still today keeps him alive. His corpse was found along the railway of the Palermo-Trapani line, near the city of Cinisi the morning of the 9th of May, 1978, the same day in which the body of Aldo Moro was found. One of the possible causes of his death was thought to be suicide due to depression. 24 years later, the 11th of April, 2002, a sentence of the Court of Appeal states that he was killed by the Mafia. We wanted to document the impotence of death, of violence, of misery. No thought can be killed by the powers that be.