Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood and runs a wine shop with his two brothers.
Mafia’s protégé Gennaro and his family are forced to run away from Palermo, their Sicilian hometown, to neighboring Tropea, in Calabria, because his boss has ordered him to kill a man.