The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
From his youth, Sicilian baron Paolo Castorini, is as attracted to women as they to him. However, he feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a serious thinker.
Jealous of a beautiful widowed midwife, her female neighbors in their small Sicilian village plot her ruin by refusing to have anything to do with their husbands.
