Salvatore is a young orphan, living in Sicily with his little sister and his grandmother; after loosing his father in a tragic way he quits school and starts working as a fisherman and a farmer in order to support his little family. The Social Services soon discover the situation and resolve to put Salvatore in an orphanage, parting him from his family. Only a young, idealistic teacher (Enrico Lo Verso) tries to help him, going everyday after school to his house, to teach him the lessons he misses in the morning and to work with him in his greenhouse or on his fishing boat.

Salvatore - Questa è la vita

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..