In 1948 when young Alberto dalla Chiesa, a captain in the carabinieri, the military police, arrives in Corleone, in the province of Palermo, one of the first things he organized is a census of all the families who live in the town of about 10,000. He discovers that every family has associations of some sort to the local Mafia clan, then under the control of one of the leading citizens, Doctor Michele Navarra. He runs a criminal fiefdom that stretched back generations.

It will be the benchmark for setting standards of evil, butchery and chaos as it kills its way to the top of the criminal underworld of Sicily over the last quarter of the twentieth-century.

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