Antonio Badalamenti, a good-natured supervisor at the Fiat plant in Milan, is a native Sicilian who has lived comfortably and complacently in the North for a decade with his blonde wife and two beautiful daughters. Before leaving on a rare two week vacation back to his ancestral hometown, one of the plant managers tasks him to personally convey a mysterious gift to Don Vincenzo, the local godfather In Nino's town.
Even though Nino's wife has misgivings about leaving the comforts of her comparatively luxurious life, she is unprepared for what she encounters. Marta undergoes culture shock when confronted by the poverty and comparatively crude customs of the provincial Sicilians, especially the Baladamenti family, who in turn view the refined blonde Northerner as a snobbish interloper.
Bringing his family with him to pay his obligatory respects to Don Vincenzo, the always affable Nino discovers the giift he has been tasked with delivering to the Don to be a beautifully bejeweled heart pendant enigmatically inscribed with the names of of nine deceased "friends" of the Mafioso, evidently martyrs of some kind for La Cosa Nostra.
After the godfather's nephew Don Liborio reminds Nino of a forgotten oath of loyalty he took as a naive 18 year-old decades before, ostensibly to get the Fiat job, he becomes further indebted when the Don settles a controversial land transaction in favor of Nino's father. Feeling he has no option but to fulfill the unknown obligation and whatever it entails, Nino agrees to honor his fealty by fulfilling a favor to the Don, a nightmarish favor which shakes Nino's safe, complacent world to its very core.
Even though Nino's wife has misgivings about leaving the comforts of her comparatively luxurious life, she is unprepared for what she encounters. Marta undergoes culture shock when confronted by the poverty and comparatively crude customs of the provincial Sicilians, especially the Baladamenti family, who in turn view the refined blonde Northerner as a snobbish interloper.
Bringing his family with him to pay his obligatory respects to Don Vincenzo, the always affable Nino discovers the giift he has been tasked with delivering to the Don to be a beautifully bejeweled heart pendant enigmatically inscribed with the names of of nine deceased "friends" of the Mafioso, evidently martyrs of some kind for La Cosa Nostra.
After the godfather's nephew Don Liborio reminds Nino of a forgotten oath of loyalty he took as a naive 18 year-old decades before, ostensibly to get the Fiat job, he becomes further indebted when the Don settles a controversial land transaction in favor of Nino's father. Feeling he has no option but to fulfill the unknown obligation and whatever it entails, Nino agrees to honor his fealty by fulfilling a favor to the Don, a nightmarish favor which shakes Nino's safe, complacent world to its very core.