Palermo, April 1982. The citizens of the Sicilian capital await with confidence and hope the arrival of the new prefect, appointed by the Minister of the Interior
Virginio Rognoni: he is not a director of the state apparatus, but the general of the Carabinieri Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, known throughout the country for his decisive contribution in the past to the fight against Sicilian banditry and subsequently to the red subversion. Accompanying the General to Palermo is his young second wife
Emanuela Setti Carraro, while helping Dalla Chiesa in the initial investigations is Captain Fontana. Palermo is tired and scared by the latest brutal murders of high-profile figures:
Boris Giuliano,
Piersanti Mattarella,
Cesare Terranova,
Gaetano Costa and
Pio La Torre, the latter murdered on the very day Dalla Chiesa took office as Prefect. The people of Palermo see in the General their last hope: a hope that, as a famous writing on a wall would later read, would die one hundred days later. == Cast==