in the movie Fine Pena:Mai il Paradiso Perduto (Life Sentence,the Lost Heaven) is the true story of Tonio Perrone.
(Claudio Santamaria)The film set in the Salento describes it as a paradise on earth, before the arrival of the Sacra Corona Unita in the early 80s.
Tonio is a young boss that in a few years will scale the heights of mala of Salento. A life made of his excesses, fast cars and drugs. His girlfriend and later wife, Daniela (Valentina Cervi) is the only comfort to the excesses of its existence. Become bossby managing activities of gambling and drug dealing and other small criminals, Tonio is arrested and, once inside, know the great leaders of an organization called the "Sacra Corona Unita". His old comrades disappear or die, Tonio and becomes the undisputed boss of a criminal organization dismantled, later by the police. Again in prison, he was sentenced to 49 years in 1992. Start following the book written by himself titled "Fine pena mai", where talks about his life, as well as remorse for not having kept the promise made years earlier with his wife Daniela and son Alessio, to never leave them alone.