Synopsis
It is the night of September 25, 1988: the moon is full and radiates on the Statale 640 from Agrigento to Caltanissetta. A car is running when, at the height of the Giurfo viaduct, it is attacked by a commando of hit men who explodes a lead grid against the unsuspecting passengers of the vehicle. The bodies, torn and unrecognizable, belong to Antonino Saetta, 65 years old, president of the first section of the Court of Assisi in Palermo, and to his son Stefano, thirty-five years old. They were going home, without armor or escort, after participating in the baptism of a grandchild in Canicattì. Antonino, sentenced to death by Cosa Nostra because impassive to compromise but given to the cause of Justice and Stefano, unaware martyr of a despicable reality that spares no one. Antonino was been involved in important trials: from the one for the Red Brigades, in Genoa, to another epoch-making trial, that of the shipwreck of the merchant ship Seagull, which will lead to a legislative turn. And Antonino is also the judge who issues the severe sentences against instigators and perpetrators of the murders of Rocco Chinnici and of the captain of the carabinieri Emanuele Basile. Therefore the mafia kills, for the first time, a magistrate, the most accredited to be the president of the Maxiprocesso appeal, and, for the first time, together with a son, found with the father's body lying on his. Perhaps, Antonino's extreme attempt to save his son’s life, their last dramatic embrace.