Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries.

Cast: Giuliano Gemma, Claudia Cardinale, Stefano Satta Flores, Massimo Mollica, Rossella Rusconi, Rik Battaglia