Placido Rizzotto

The real story of Placido Rizzotto, a trade union leader murdered by the mafia in Sicily in 1948. On the evening of March 10 1948 the Secretary of the Corleone Trade Union Headquarters, Placido Rizzotto, disappears. By a strange twist of fate at the time of his disappearance some young men converge and become important in Italian contemporary history for various reasons: the captain of the carabinieri Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, who carried out the investigation and arrested Rizzotto's murderers the young university student Pio La Torre, who took over from Rizzotto and, on the other side, Luciano Liggio, Rizzotto's murderer and his gang members, who went on to become Mafia bosses. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)