George and Joseph grow up without a father in Sicily sixties. Devoted to the young mother and jealous of her beauty, hindering her relationship with a handsome producer Roman decided to court her and take her away from the Sicilian countryside. Playing with gunpowder accidentally kill the enterprising lover, concealing his body and silence forever his death. In the same incident and the loss of sight Giorgio Giuseppe smile. Several years later, supported by the benevolent pharmacist in the country, love never revealed the mother, decide to go to Turin to find his friend In the view and the future. A stone's throw from the Mole remain involved against their brutal murder of an executive of Fiat gunned down by the Red Brigades. Survives attack the young secretary, witness rescued and then protected by Giorgio. The entrance of Catherine in their lives and hearts of his younger brother, however, affect their fragile balance forever family..