1 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,720 - Here we go again! Angela! - What do you want, dad? 2 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,360 Must you phone every morning? 3 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,320 Why? Must a girl necessarily have to have a boyfriend? 4 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:23,680 What are you doing, Salvatore? Still not in... 5 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,240 - Just a minute! - A minute? 6 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,880 We've got water for once and you let it get cold? 7 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,720 It's a waste, a sin to God! 8 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,280 There are people in Palermo who'd kill for a bit of water. 9 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,880 Now get in, your sister's having a bath after you. 10 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,040 I did know, I really did! 11 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,640 That was why I didn't want to get in my bath, 12 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,720 because people really died for water in Palermo 13 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,880 and a special person had made me see this, 14 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,160 a journalist who'd declared war on the Mafia. 15 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,560 "The people behind the murder of the carabiniere" 16 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:59,480 "weren't the Bontates, the Inzerillos or the Badalamenti," 17 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:02,680 "but the new Mafia chiefs from Corleone." 18 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:07,680 That journalist was Mario Francese, he wrote for the "Giornale di Sicilia". 19 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,960 One day the teacher had us read some of his articles in class 20 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,000 and it was like a bolt from the blue. 21 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,240 Do these things really happen? Here? In Palermo? 22 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,320 Unfortunately yes, Alice, here in your city. 23 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:24,800 And how does this man know about it? 24 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,240 You'll be able to ask him yourselves. 25 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,160 Because this man is coming to see you in a few days. 26 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:37,000 I started asking around and realized it was a very important visit. 27 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,320 We could do with other journalists like him, Salvuccio. 28 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,880 And politicians, directors, policemen. They should all be like him. 29 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,720 He's great, really great. Mario is a friend. 30 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,280 Anyway, journalists are all the same, they write a load of rubbish. 31 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,560 - Who invited him? - Gabriella, the teacher. 32 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:02,120 Gabriella the teacher invited him? Does Sister Battista know about it? 33 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,200 I see. So some parents have complained? 34 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:11,400 It's normal, they're not sure their children are ready for certain things. 35 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:17,720 Honestly, I'm not sure either it's right to confront them with the outside world. 36 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,120 Sooner or later they'll find out on their own. 37 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,640 Precisely, so why have them grow up before time? 38 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:26,960 Look at them. 39 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:30,560 They're so sweet. 40 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,440 When the great day arrived we were all very excited. 41 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,600 - What car do you think he has? - A Mercedes, like my dad. 42 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,040 Excuse me, children, I'm looking for Miss Gabriella. 43 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,360 She's inside. We're waiting for someone. 44 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,960 - A very important journalist. - Who goes on the telly too. 45 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,320 Giving the full names of crooks and criminals! 46 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:54,800 - He must be a big shot then. - Yeah. 47 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,600 - Children... Mr. Francese, welcome! - Good morning. 48 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:05,120 We discovered that famous journalist, the big shot, was a normal, frank person 49 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,760 who had a gift for making everyone understand, even us children. 50 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,400 I have a passion, I love animals. 51 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:18,040 I've got a little house in the country where I go with my children on Sundays. 52 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:23,400 As I feed the birds, I think of Palermo, the most beautiful city in the world, 53 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,360 and I immediately feel homesick. 54 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,400 It might be because I'm away from it, in fact as soon as I come back 55 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,960 and I see the rubbish in the streets, neglectfulness everywhere, 56 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:39,120 the faces of the mafiosi, their politician friends, ordinary people, 57 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:44,000 a great sadness and a great rage come over me. 58 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:50,040 So you love this city even if you speak badly about it? 59 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:53,760 - Let's see... What's your name? - Salvatore. 60 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:58,680 If you go out with your hair uncombed, what will your mother say? 61 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:00,360 That I'm scruffy. 62 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,000 Does she say so because she loves you or because she's making fun of you? 63 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,520 - Because she loves me. - You see? 64 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,680 If you love someone you must tell them the truth 65 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,440 or else you become a tacit accomplice. 66 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,560 - Do you know what "omertà" is? - No. 67 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:24,440 It's when you know something, but pretend you don't know it. 68 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,680 "Omertà" is the great evil of this place. 69 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:30,640 It's to bullies what water is to vegetables, 70 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,720 the more there is of it the better they grow. 71 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,400 My job is to extract this water. 72 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,440 Is your job very hard? 73 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,640 You'll see for yourselves if it's hard, 74 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:46,560 because Mr. Francese and I have decided you'll carry out an investigation too. 75 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,840 - What do we have to investigate on? - You can choose. 76 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:54,440 It must be something that concerns you closely and you care for. 77 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,440 The one he'll consider the most worthy will be published in his newspaper. 78 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,160 What if someone gets angry with these "instigations"? 79 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,280 The word is "investigation". 80 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,560 If someone gets angry, tough, it's the hazards of the job. 81 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,640 You know what they say, "barking dogs seldom bite". 82 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,560 A cuckold! The Mafia's a cuckold now! 83 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,120 It's not "cuckold", it's the concord between the Mafia and politics. 84 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:27,160 It means they're together. 85 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:31,960 How the hell do they know? 86 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,320 Who the hell's written this article? 87 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,600 It's signed at the bottom, uncle Totò. 88 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:44,280 Mario Francese. 89 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:48,160 Him again? Didn't you tell him not to break our balls? 90 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,200 I sent him two letters, Totò. 91 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:55,040 Then he's an idiot. He knows how to speak, but not how to listen. 92 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,200 I'll write mine on war invalids, like my father. 93 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,360 But he's a fake invalid. Didn't you hear he said we must tell the truth? 94 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,360 - I'll do mine on sailors out at sea. - On what? 95 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,600 On sailors, like my dad, always at sea and never at home. 96 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,520 We'll do ours on the kidnapping of wealthy children. 97 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:15,800 - We? We who? - Alice and I. 98 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,160 We're doing it together because we're both scared of this. 99 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,200 - There's my dad, bye! - Bye. 100 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:29,440 - I'm not that scared. - Then why are you doing it with Fofò? 101 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,200 Because... he's my boyfriend. 102 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:36,880 I'm doing mine with Santina. 103 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,360 - What are we doing together? - The investigation. 104 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:44,640 - Really? About what? - It's a secret. I'll tell you later. 105 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:52,800 I was terribly worried, my friends had subjects that concerned them closely 106 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:56,680 while around me everyone was waiting to move to the new house 107 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,360 and sacrifices didn't seem to matter. 108 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,440 Dad had quit smoking to save on everything 109 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,880 and pay the monthly mortgage when he got it. 110 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:13,080 Mum went on getting up at five not to lose a single day of work. 111 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,480 - Are you tired, love? - A little. 112 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:22,080 And my sister cooked for my mum. But they were all happy. 113 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,960 You try running an investigation on happiness! 114 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,840 I would've given anything for a disaster to strike my family. 115 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,320 Take the glasses. 116 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,360 Then luckily something happened. 117 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:37,960 There's no water for the pasta! 118 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,160 - Again? - Yes! 119 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,120 And I've got to wash my hair! 120 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:47,120 You washed it yesterday! And you say you don't have a boyfriend! 121 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,200 Dad, boyfriend or not, I have to wash my hair! 122 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,360 Please, I don't want to hear you! 123 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,200 I'll get the water, it'll give me a nice walk. 124 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,400 Salvuccio, come with mum to get the water. 125 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:01,880 - I'm laying the table! - Come with mum, darling. 126 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:08,400 Getting water was torture, but I'd found the subject for my investigation. 127 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:11,400 Mum, why's water always off in Palermo? 128 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:13,800 - Who knows, Salvatore. - It's the pipes! 129 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:18,440 - It's the evil eye! - They steal our water! 130 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,560 This problem concerned everyone closely, 131 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,440 water in Palermo arrived in fits and starts 132 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:26,920 and at the craziest hours 133 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,320 and one had to avoid getting caught unprepared. 134 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,400 It's coming! 135 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,080 Is it? Lorenzo, it's coming! Angela, the water's coming. 136 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,000 - The buckets! - Me! Me! 137 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:41,920 - Get the others from the kitchen. - Dad, I must wash my hair! 138 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,600 - Wait for your turn. - What are you doing? 139 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,520 - What do you think? I'm washing. - With your shoes on? 140 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:49,120 I'll take them off right now. 141 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:52,840 - But the water's cold. - Must I really tell you I smell? 142 00:09:53,280 --> 00:10:00,280 We greeted storms like African tribes greet the wet season. 143 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,760 - Come on, Giovanni! - Giammarresi, it's raining! 144 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,520 - Let's hope it lasts. - Excuse me, Mr. Presti Filippo. 145 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:07,000 Did you get the big one, Pia? 146 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,640 It's the only one available, the others are on the cooker! 147 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,120 Come on, it's raining! 148 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:15,600 The irony is that all this seemed more than normal. 149 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,280 What do you mean there's no water? Water is never off at my house. 150 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:21,800 You just have to go to the fountain. 151 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:25,360 Listen, Totò, no-one gives a damn about water. 152 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:32,680 Did you hear that? We'd better change. 153 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:34,760 Why? Who says they're right? 154 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,160 And who says you're right? 155 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,000 Hey, stop! Aren't you coming to school? 156 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:49,240 No. If the teacher asks, say I felt sick and had to go back home. 157 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:53,600 It was the first time I skived off school, 158 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:55,400 but I believed it was for a good cause. 159 00:10:55,560 --> 00:10:58,080 I had important business to deal with. 160 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:00,160 What about the article? 161 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,320 As soon as you hand it in we'll go to the director together... 162 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,720 - Excuse me. - Hold on, Cosimo. Yes? 163 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,520 - May I speak to Mr. Mario Francese? - Mr. Mario Francese? 164 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,160 - Yes. It's about an investigation. - An investigation? 165 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:20,840 Yes. 166 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,440 - And who must I announce? - Salvatore, class 5B. 167 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:30,920 Rosario told Angela he'd introduce her to a good friend of his from the north 168 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:32,760 and she really stressed out. 169 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:38,720 Here's my friend, straight from Arcore, but used by the factory. 170 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,600 - You tricked me! - Yeah, it was a joke. 171 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,480 - You like it? - It's beautiful! 172 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:50,400 Wait till you see it run. It'll puff up your hair. Come. 173 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:52,000 - I can't now. - Why? 174 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:57,680 - I've got a Latin version. - A version? Get on, you must try it. 175 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:59,720 Let's make it this afternoon. 176 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:05,720 - What about your brother? - I'll find a solution. 177 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:07,440 Well done, my love! 178 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:12,840 Hurry and get this version done. Off you go! 179 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,080 Come in, the director's waiting for you. 180 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:35,680 Director, Mr. Giammarresi is here. 181 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,560 - Come in, Giammarresi. - Good morning, Director. 182 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:41,400 - Sit down. - Thank you. 183 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:43,320 Would you like a sweet? 184 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,640 - Choose. - I'll take this one. 185 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:52,800 My favourite, toffee. 186 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:04,920 Mmmh, toffee. 187 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:10,400 Thank you. 188 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:13,920 Let's have a look. 189 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:18,560 Giammarresi. Giammarresi. 190 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:24,400 - Family of? - Two children. 191 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:25,920 Two. 192 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,080 Well done, Giammarresi. 193 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:31,760 Everything's in order. 194 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:35,760 I can't today, I've got my piano lesson. 195 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:37,360 - Can't you put it off? - No, 196 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,000 you've no idea how much mum pays for the lessons. 197 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:43,200 I'm sorry, but I'm busy too. If I'd known before... 198 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,680 How could I've known before? Good friends, I'm asking you a favour! 199 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:51,120 If you have a problem with your brother, I can look after him. 200 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:53,960 I'm sorry I couldn't avoid hearing. 201 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,240 - Would you really? - Yes, for you. 202 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:01,920 - Thank you! - Good morning. 203 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:06,680 Giammarresi! Are we organizing a ballet? 204 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,080 Shall I ask the headmaster to play some music over the PA? 205 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,640 So as to brighten this moment of... 206 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:17,680 I'd like to say passion, but it doesn't rhyme. 207 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:21,360 You're laughing? You're laughing? 208 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,760 I take it you'd rather have an oral exam, right? 209 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,880 You said we had to choose a subject we cared about, 210 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,360 but water may be a wrong subject. 211 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,240 No, Salvatore, it's a good subject. 212 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:36,720 - Mario! The post. - Thanks. 213 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,600 - So what do I do? Do I go ahead? - Certainly you go ahead. 214 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:46,920 But let me tell you something, 215 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:51,840 do you know Petrarch's poem? "Clear, sweet fresh water"? 216 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:53,920 Yes. 217 00:14:54,400 --> 00:15:01,400 You must know that nothing is clear in Sicily, not even water. 218 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,120 YOU'RE A DEAD MAN 219 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,480 - Is everything alright? - It's alright. 220 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,320 Men of Colorado, I'll say my goodbyes and I'll go. 221 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:19,000 Bye, Mario. 222 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,840 - What does "men of Colorado" mean? - Nothing. Do you like cowboy films? 223 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:25,760 - Yes. - Me too. 224 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:29,600 Mario Francese's words had filled me with enthusiasm, 225 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:34,160 I spent the whole morning at the library where I discovered lots of things. 226 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,320 Palermo used to have a lot of water, 227 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:41,320 in fact its name meant "whole port" for the Phoenicians 228 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:46,560 and it was crossed by three rivers, the Kemonia, the Papireto and the Oreto. 229 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,120 The first two had been filled in, 230 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,520 but the third one flowed somewhere in the suburbs, 231 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:57,040 so I had an idea worthy of a great water engineer, 232 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:01,640 a pity that certain people cared little or nothing about my investigation. 233 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,160 - Why must I stay with him? - Because. 234 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:08,880 - But I've my investigation to do! - Please! And promise you won't run off. 235 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,920 - Hi. - Thanks, Marco, it's a great favour. 236 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:25,080 No problem, but I still don't see what you must do that's so important. 237 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:26,960 Go for a ride. 238 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:35,240 - Enjoy yourself. - You be good, okay? 239 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:38,360 Bye. 240 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,920 - Do you want a lollipop? - I've never liked them. 241 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,120 - An ice-cram? - Not now. 242 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:56,320 A ride on the roundabout? 243 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,640 No, I want to see the river Oreto, it's for an investigation for school. 244 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:02,280 A river? 245 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,040 Unfortunately Marco didn't have a bike, 246 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,280 but he found a way to get to the river anyway. 247 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:12,920 We could do what the Venetians did to the river Po, 248 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:16,200 divert the Oreto to bring it back into the city. 249 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:19,600 There's lots of water in a river. 250 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:25,160 - Does it sound a stupid idea? - No, on the contrary, it could work. 251 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:31,640 I felt that was a magical day. It was the first time I went sailing 252 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:35,800 and I thought I'd found a solution to the issue of water in Palermo. 253 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:37,280 Seen from the sea, 254 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,960 maybe because of the distance, as Mario Francese had said, 255 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:44,680 it really looked like the most beautiful city of the world. 256 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:54,400 But as soon as we got closer it wasn't that beautiful. 257 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:56,200 I think we're there. 258 00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:59,280 What? 259 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,880 - Where's the river? - There it is. 260 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,800 It had been reduced to a sad suburban stream. 261 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:09,800 That's it. 262 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,480 In the pictures I saw it was a large river and full of water. 263 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:20,560 It was clear. It even had fish in it. It was a beautiful river! 264 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:22,960 One moment it's the most beautiful city of the world 265 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:25,640 and the next it's the ugliest of places. 266 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:30,120 You see it's impossible to understand? Just like people. 267 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:38,920 I'd found in Angela's classmate a new friend I had much in common with, 268 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:40,560 especially one thing. 269 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,480 - Do you think they've gone far? - I don't know. 270 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:49,240 Well, as long as they go slowly. 271 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,400 - Shall we go back? - Yes. 272 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:00,040 My ideas to solve the issue of water in Palermo 273 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,320 hadn't withstood the confrontation with the harsh reality, 274 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:08,640 and because of the wind, it took us twice as long to get back 275 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,600 and my sister had been walking up and down the beach for an hour. 276 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:17,240 Where were you? I thought you'd drowned! 277 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:19,920 Sorry, it took us ages to get back. 278 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,160 We went to see the river for my investigation on water, 279 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,360 but it was useless. I'll have to start it all over again. 280 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:28,400 Did you help him with the investigation? 281 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,960 Yes, we took the opportunity. 282 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:36,280 - Thanks. - What about you? Was it fun? 283 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:40,960 - Excuse me, here's the bill. - Thanks. 284 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:48,360 - What's the matter? - What's the matter? 285 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,440 - Is it too steep? - Holy shit, it is! 286 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,400 - Anyway, we're not paying. - What do you mean? 287 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:57,840 No, the owner's from the MSI. 288 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:02,520 Oh Angela! Militancy to the end. It's an act of proletarian expropriation. 289 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,680 Why, are we proletarians? 290 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,880 Angela, I've got no money, I spent it on the petrol. 291 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:11,720 What do we do now? 292 00:20:13,360 --> 00:20:17,840 Nothing, I get the bike, you jump on as soon as I come and we leave. 293 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:53,840 Yes, it was fun. 294 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,360 - Dad will be mad at us, you know? - Yes, I know. 295 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:01,000 Shall we go? 296 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:05,000 - Bye. - Bye. 297 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,600 That evening dad didn't even notice we were late 298 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:11,720 because he'd had a great disappointment too. 299 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:18,720 Giammarresi, I know you're honest, so I'll be honest with you too, 300 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,680 we can't give you the mortgage, as you say. 301 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:32,760 Why, what do you say? 302 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:37,280 And he says, "With your salary and your wife's temporary salary" 303 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,600 "you'd need a nice house to mortgage." 304 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,320 I said, "Forgive me, but if I had a nice house to mortgage," 305 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,520 -"why would I want a nice house to buy?" -And the director? 306 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,480 He says that's how economy works, there's nothing to be done... 307 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,200 Sometimes I think Angela's right, 308 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:57,680 we need a good old revolution once and for all! 309 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:06,600 Lorenzo, we've been through a lot, we'll get through this too. 310 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:14,600 I say things, but after all I like this house, I'm fond of it. 311 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:19,680 - Are you saying it to make me happy? - No, it's true. 312 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,480 Our children were born here, we've all our memories, right? 313 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,520 It was a hard blow for the whole family. 314 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,480 Our happiness vanished that afternoon 315 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,600 and everything seemed useless and unbearable. 316 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,760 My mum was actually even more disappointed than my dad. 317 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,560 She'd got so much used to the idea of moving house 318 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:48,200 she didn't sleep that night and the next morning, for the first time... 319 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:50,920 - Excuse me, where are we? - At San Cipirello. 320 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,280 I had to get off in Partinico! 321 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,560 Suddenly sacrifices had lost all their sense. 322 00:22:57,120 --> 00:23:01,480 Dad went to his office as one goes to forced labour 323 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:05,160 and my sister went back to refusing to be a scullery maid. 324 00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:06,720 Angela! 325 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:14,360 - Haven't you even made the coffee? - I'm busy, I've no time. 326 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:23,400 Alright then! 327 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,200 I felt my investigation was getting nowhere 328 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,920 and I could see Fofò's and Alice's names side by side in the newspaper. 329 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:34,240 - I'll be right back, dad. - Okay. 330 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:38,760 - Hi, Salvatore. - Hello. 331 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,400 - Do you know each other? - Sure. 332 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,000 - He came to my school. - We're colleagues now, right? 333 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,840 Yes, I went to the mouth of the Oreto, 334 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,280 but it's become a dirty little river. 335 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,640 It's very sad, nothing can be done with it. 336 00:23:55,280 --> 00:24:00,160 Don't check out things downstream, but upstream. Upstream! 337 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,720 - How are things with your sweetheart? - She's still not my sweetheart. 338 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,160 Salvatore's in love with a girl who's giving him quite a hard time. 339 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,200 I'm sorry to hear that. 340 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,400 Salvuccio, shall we go? It's late. 341 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:19,880 - Hi. - Hello. 342 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,160 - Bye. - Bye, Salvatore. 343 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,040 Bye. 344 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,480 - When did you receive this one? - Yesterday. 345 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,760 Had you ever received such explicit threats before? 346 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:38,960 No, not like this one. 347 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:43,480 The postmark's from Messina, 348 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,440 but I bet it was written in Corleone. 349 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,560 - Hello, childr... - Mrs. Pia, come in! 350 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,040 What? Don't worry, it's no problem. 351 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,800 Mine are with Father Fabio, 352 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,960 I kept the door closed so nobody noticed. 353 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,160 - Is everything okay? - Yes, it's alright, I just ran. 354 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,320 - Thanks. - Don't mention it. 355 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,600 Are you coming back to Palermo with me later on? 356 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:33,080 - I don't know... we'll see. - It's only to get you home before four. 357 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:34,800 I wouldn't want to profit. 358 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:40,280 You'd profit if it wasn't a pleasure for me, but it is, really. 359 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:48,520 - Give me your coat, I'll take it. - Thanks. 360 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,280 Pia, one more thing. 361 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,000 You're beautiful when you smile. 362 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,880 - Isn't Mrs. Pia beautiful? - What are you saying? 363 00:25:58,040 --> 00:25:59,360 Yes! 364 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,720 - Say goodbye to Mr. Ayala, say bye. - Bye! 365 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,480 - See you later, children. - See you later. Bye, thanks. 366 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,080 Have you called the register? I'll do it. 367 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,000 "Giammaresi", at your age you're still running after those rotten banks? 368 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,320 Who should I ask this mortgage from then? 369 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,920 The problem isn't who to ask the mortgage for the house, 370 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:22,800 it's why ask. 371 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,200 Didn't you want to buy that beautiful house you saw? 372 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:27,680 Yes! 373 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,880 Didn't I tell you the constructors were friends of mine? 374 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,160 Honest people who'd understand the situation? 375 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:38,080 - What situation? - Aren't you an honest person? 376 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:39,640 - Certainly. - So? 377 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:44,640 No need for guarantees and other crap among honest people. 378 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,680 - No? - No! 379 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,680 - Haven't you got 40 million? - No. 380 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,880 - Have you got three? - Well, three... maybe... 381 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:57,200 Then you give three today, another three the year after, 382 00:26:57,360 --> 00:27:01,240 another three the following year and so on. 383 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,760 And if you don't have three, you give them two. 384 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,240 You give what you have. 385 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,160 - Just like this...? - Just like this! 386 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:11,480 And if you can't manage 40 you give them 35, it's the same. 387 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,600 - The same. - Giammarresi! 388 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,440 What do you say? Do you want to meet these friends? 389 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:26,480 Musumeci, give me a moment to think about it. 390 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,400 No, your moments last a month and the houses go. 391 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:35,520 - Hi, Santina. - Hi. 392 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,600 We must go to Mount Gibilmesi this afternoon 393 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,080 to see the source of the Oreto. - Why? 394 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,240 Francese told me, we must find out where it stops being a real river. 395 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,880 Nice! We've finished our investigation. 396 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,720 Actually, a friend of Fofò's father wrote it. 397 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,200 It's all typed up. 398 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:56,160 What's the fun in having it written by someone else? Come with us. 399 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,560 To the source of the river... It might be fun. 400 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,040 It sounds like bullshit, and what's this river anyway? 401 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:04,520 The Oreto. 402 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,920 Do you at least know where exactly the source is? 403 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:08,400 That's not a problem. 404 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,480 - Four to three. - Four to four. 405 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,400 It's not four to four. You're stealing my points. 406 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:14,880 Hi! 407 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,960 Hi, Salvù, what are you doing here? 408 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:20,760 I've come with some friends because we'd like to know... 409 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,200 Are you a barman or a forest ranger? 410 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:25,880 What do you mean? 411 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,720 Shouldn't you be at work at this time of day? 412 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,720 - I'm having my lunch break, why? - Is this lunch break time? 413 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,240 Coffee break. And who am I speaking too? 414 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:39,760 Fofò. 415 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,440 Ah, the one that... 416 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,160 - All clear, thanks. - Alice. 417 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,600 Pleased to meet you, Massimo, hi. 418 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,720 Hello, I'm Santina, Salvatore's girlfriend. 419 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,200 I see. 420 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,120 Patrizia, shall we give the kids some crisps? They must be hungry. 421 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:05,600 Sure! 422 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:07,160 Pleased to meet you. 423 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,160 Come on, kids. How sweet they are all together! 424 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,720 Come over here, Salvù. Your girlfriend looks rather peaked... 425 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,800 Yes, but I'm with her to get the other one jealous, as you told me. 426 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,040 As you told him. 427 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,960 Yes, but I said something else, he didn't understand. 428 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:27,240 How can she be jealous of that one? Have you seen her? 429 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,000 Whatever. 430 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:35,480 - Uncle, I've a question. - If only you had just one. 431 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,000 Shoot. 432 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:44,680 Sicilian Forestry Corps was a typical product of our regional autonomy. 433 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,800 You weren't right, but dead right to come to me. 434 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,960 Let's go to my office. Hi! 435 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,800 He has all the maps, we'll find the source fast. 436 00:29:58,320 --> 00:29:59,680 Oh, sorry. 437 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,240 I think he needs the map to find his office. 438 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,160 Has your daughter got married then? 439 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:08,960 Lucky her! 440 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,360 - Who is it? How are you? - Alright. Alright. 441 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,600 - Have you made changes here? - No. 442 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,120 Couldn't you have name plates like in all civilized countries? 443 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,760 No-one wants to do a shit here. 444 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,400 Have you got it? 445 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,080 So this is the toilet. 446 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,640 I tell you what, instead of looking at papers and maps 447 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,640 why don't we go directly to the source? 448 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:59,000 If you want to understand things you must see them with your own eyes. 449 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,200 My uncle Massimo would have bent over backwards for me 450 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,760 and to help me find that blessed source 451 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:11,280 he did what he should've done ages ago as a forest ranger, 452 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,000 he went into the woods. 453 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,880 My dad has a passion for the mountains, 454 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,280 every year we go skiing in Canazei. 455 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,400 - Is this the right way? - Yes! 456 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,000 If you could be quiet a minute I'd hear the sound of the river. 457 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,200 Come and see these strange plants. 458 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:31,760 - Where? - Here, look. 459 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,240 I'm coming. 460 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:40,080 Wait, why don't you help your girlfriend who seems to be having some trouble? 461 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,360 Look at how pretty they are. 462 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,080 - And what are those flowers? - What? 463 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,080 Those yellow flowers must have a name, right? 464 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,160 They certainly have. 465 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,640 They're... "lilyettes", "jayettes". 466 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,040 - "Lilyettes", "jayettes"? - Yes. 467 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:07,840 Never heard of them. 468 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:14,080 - And those plants over there? - They're not plants, they're bushes. 469 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,480 I can see that, but what kind of bushes? 470 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,400 "Cuccureddu", it's a "cuccureddu" bush. 471 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,400 Like the Juventus player? 472 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,960 Yes, the same, but it's just a coincidence. 473 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:27,440 Never heard this one either. 474 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,960 Because it's rare. Let's go or we'll dry it up by looking at it. 475 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,720 Oh, at last! 476 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,560 Do you need to catch your breath, Santina? 477 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,400 - I'm staying here. - What do you mean? 478 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,880 - I'd rather. - We're nearly there, just two minutes. 479 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,760 - I'm staying here. - Alright, as you wish. 480 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,880 Okay, then take your coat. 481 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,680 - You won't move from here, right? - No. 482 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,160 - Promise? - Promise. 483 00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:58,920 Alright. 484 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,480 Sorry, but how can "cuccureddus" dry up? 485 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,320 Cuccureddus are insecure flowers, 486 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,480 if you look at them, they'll stop sucking up water and die of thirst. 487 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,200 Heard that? They're like you, insecure. 488 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,640 Let's go kids, this way. 489 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,840 Instead of going up the mountain we went round it. 490 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,880 Fofò, I'm not lost, it's just that... 491 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:35,440 We came out on the opposite side and having walked an hour in the woods... 492 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,280 - What are you doing there? - What are you doing here? 493 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,080 I stayed where you left me. 494 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,360 Careful here. 495 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:11,960 Uncle? 496 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,520 - What are they doing here? - No idea. 497 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,280 I'm a ranger not a surveyor. 498 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,600 - Excuse me, what are they doing here? - A lake. 499 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,920 - Is it the Garcia dam? - Yes. 500 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,480 I've got it, kids, it's a great engineering work. 501 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:34,680 They're building a huge dam here. They even spoke about it on the news, 502 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,560 we can forget about the issue of water in Palermo. 503 00:34:37,720 --> 00:34:42,280 With this dam we'll quench thirst in Palermo, in Sicily, in Basilicata... 504 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,280 They'll have a shower! 505 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,480 - When will it be finished? - Never. 506 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:50,120 It was started 30 years ago and they're still pretending to work. 507 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,080 30 years? Why haven't they finished? 508 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,480 Why? 'Cos dogs always bite the most tattered. 509 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,800 - What did he mean? - Nothing, forget about him. 510 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,840 Have you had a look at him? At the very least he brings bad luck. 511 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,920 Look at how big and beautiful it is. It'll make a wonderful lake. 512 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,280 Do you know what? We'll take a nice picture. 513 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:16,840 Stand over here. 514 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:21,600 Move over here. 515 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:23,760 That's it. 516 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:29,320 Come on, smile. Hey, smile. 517 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,720 - Come on, Massimo! - What's this familiarity? 518 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,280 Salvatore? 519 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:39,360 - Are you sure you love me? - Yes. 520 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,280 Even if I'm not like Alice? 521 00:35:44,240 --> 00:35:46,800 - Yes. - Thank goodness. 522 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,800 My uncle really believed the dam was an opportunity 523 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,600 for the development and well-being of everyone, 524 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:58,280 but unfortunately some people couldn't care less about everyone's well-being. 525 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,760 - Is the pillar reinforced? - Reinforced, yes. 526 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:08,360 - How much iron are you putting? - To tell the truth, only just enough. 527 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,000 If it's only just enough, then use even less. 528 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,040 Tell the foreman to put more sand. 529 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,640 What are all these lorries? Where the hell are they running to? 530 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,600 The thing is that newspapers report delays. 531 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,080 A journalist came asking questions the other day. 532 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:38,560 Really? 533 00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:45,920 What's his name? 534 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,080 He's very popular... 535 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:52,480 Mario Francese. 536 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,560 He's breaking our balls! 537 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,160 You see how lively he is, Giuseppe? 538 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,720 He's stopped eating because he's full. 539 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,440 We'll set him free out in the country tomorrow. 540 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,120 Tomorrow, daddy? 541 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,720 Wouldn't spring be better? He's still little. 542 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:17,760 You're still little too, but would you like to be in a cage? 543 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,760 No, you don't get it. 544 00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:32,480 They've cut the mountain in half and raised a monument. 545 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,640 Pia, a monument! You tell them, Salvo. 546 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,720 - Or they'll think I'm inventing stuff. - Yes. 547 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,800 They're not like you, Lorenzo, getting old trying to buy a house. 548 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,680 Let me tell you just one thing, 549 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,640 the world was created in seven days. That's it. 550 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,640 Can't any of you react? Or must I die? 551 00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:10,280 - What's going on? - The mortgage. We didn't get it. 552 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,600 Come on, Pia, leave it... 553 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:16,320 - Shit. I didn't know. - It's alright. 554 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:21,960 They said they'd give us the house without any help from the bank, but... 555 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:23,840 But? 556 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:29,920 My boss knows the constructors 557 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:34,440 and says they can give us the house... 558 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:36,200 on faith. 559 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:41,640 So what's your problem? I've told you a million times, 560 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,000 opportunities turn a man into a thief but missed ones turn him into a twit. 561 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:51,480 Accept. Lorenzo, accept! 562 00:38:55,720 --> 00:38:57,240 Excuse me. 563 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,240 Have I hurt him? 564 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,560 A veil of sadness had come down upon that dinner 565 00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:07,880 and I felt that my father's bitterness 566 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,240 had something in common with my doubts about my research, 567 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:15,400 so the words of the old man in the mountain came back to my mind. 568 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:20,400 He's the prophet of spaghetti, he cooks it in lots of different ways. 569 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,800 Today he's cooking it in a new way. 570 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:25,400 Dad? 571 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,720 What's the meaning of "dogs always bite the most tattered"? 572 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,600 - That dogs always bite the poor. - Yes, I got that. 573 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:39,440 But why? 574 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,840 Because the world's unfair, Salvù. 575 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,840 So you don't want to meet my friends? 576 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,560 Not yet, I'd better not. 577 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,920 "Giammaresi", I'm telling you dispassionately, 578 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:04,720 if you carry on this way, you won't do a bloody shit in your life! 579 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,320 We realized that to achieve our objectives 580 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:19,360 we had to overcome trials that were far too big for us. 581 00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:20,840 It's a lovely photo. 582 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,000 Yes, on the way there we saw strange plants. 583 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:25,720 What do you mean by strange? 584 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:30,160 One stops sucking water from its roots if you look at it and it dies of thirst. 585 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:34,080 Really? Here you are! Alice was telling me. 586 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,320 It's going to be a wonderful investigation. 587 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:40,520 I'm not sure, miss. I think I won't finish it. 588 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:42,280 No? Why? 589 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:48,120 - Alice, you talk to him. - Salvatore, why won't you finish it? 590 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,160 I think we'll win then. Ours is really good. 591 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,040 It's completely typed up with no mistakes. 592 00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:57,640 - So? Why won't you finish it? - Because I won't. 593 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,160 I haven't understood anything about this water problem. 594 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,920 The thing is that I'm not sure about anything, as you said. 595 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,680 Not even about Santina, I don't know if I can go on pretending. 596 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:11,200 Pretending what? 597 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,560 What do you mean? Can't you see I don't like her at all? 598 00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:16,680 - Salvatore... - I'm pretending. 599 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:20,800 I don't like Santina, she's so fat! 600 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,240 What? 601 00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,840 You said a completely different thing yesterday. 602 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,280 You said you liked me as I was. 603 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:34,200 You're really... a bad person. Santina! Wait for me! 604 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,240 What's going on, children? 605 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:38,880 You're really a bad person. 606 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:41,640 Awfully bad. 607 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,920 Left alone, with no friends, 608 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,520 I decided to wipe out all the doubts that had blocked me 609 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,920 and dived heart and soul into the research. 610 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,160 Or at least I tried. 611 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,960 - The version was hard, wasn't it? - Yeah, well... 612 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:06,600 Rosario! 613 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,320 Are you always the first to come out? 614 00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:17,720 - Are you Marco? - Yes. 615 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,240 Thank you for looking after Angela's brother. Thanks. 616 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:22,960 - No problem. - You see? 617 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,400 There's no problem, you can ask him next time too. 618 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,520 Nice to meet you, buddy, really nice. 619 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,480 Always fight hard! Always! 620 00:42:46,240 --> 00:42:50,880 My mother had decided instead to try getting something somewhere else. 621 00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,360 - What are you doing? - I'm parking. 622 00:42:53,720 --> 00:42:55,680 - Why? - I'm taking you out for lunch. 623 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,320 What are you saying? I must go home. 624 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,760 Sorry, I thought it wasn't a problem for you to get back home at four. 625 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:05,800 And when did I say that? 626 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,480 Forget it, that's not the point. I've already booked. 627 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,120 - Antonio, let's not joke, okay? - Can you tell me something? 628 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:17,720 You work yourself to death every day to get to school in time, right? 629 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,680 God knows how many other things you've got to do at home. 630 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:25,080 So what harm would it do to take a few hours for yourself just for once? 631 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,160 It's nothing bad, right? 632 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,120 So let's go! 633 00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:39,600 For the love of his family, 634 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:44,080 my father had started a fierce struggle against his honest man's conscience 635 00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:48,840 and he knew that by accepting he'd make our life better. 636 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,840 May I speak to Mr...? 637 00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:55,560 Alright, I'll wait. 638 00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:58,920 I'm at the office, don't worry. 639 00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,600 Laura, I'll be back in a minute. 640 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:07,920 Come in. 641 00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,120 - "Giammaresi", tell me all. - So... 642 00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,400 I wanted to tell you... 643 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,800 we're short of carbon paper. 644 00:44:31,240 --> 00:44:34,200 Could you take care of it? 645 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:37,120 Thanks. 646 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,240 What is it? Don't you like it? 647 00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,520 I do. 648 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:00,800 So what? 649 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,040 Because I like it so much I don't feel like eating it... 650 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,840 here... like this. 651 00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,840 But it's nothing to do with you. 652 00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,320 Take me back home. 653 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:29,600 Hello? 654 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:31,920 Is Santina in? 655 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,400 Can you tell her I called? 656 00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,360 I'm Salvatore, her classmate. 657 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,120 Thank you, have a good evening. 658 00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,360 I finished the investigation on my own, 659 00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:01,840 but in the meantime it had become something different and I felt guilty. 660 00:46:02,240 --> 00:46:03,920 "Dear Mr. Francese," 661 00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:08,080 "You said one must always start from something one cares for" 662 00:46:08,720 --> 00:46:12,200 "and I asked myself why there was a water shortage in Palermo," 663 00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,560 "but to answer this question I asked myself another one," 664 00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,960 "why is there always water in Fofò's house?" 665 00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:23,600 "Why have we polluted our rivers and killed all the fish?" 666 00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:28,000 "Why does it take 30 years to build a dam? And so on." 667 00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,560 "In the end this investigation hasn't turned out like a real one," 668 00:46:31,720 --> 00:46:34,800 "but rather like a list of questions that I can't answer." 669 00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:38,640 "So I'd like to apologize for having wasted your time." 670 00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:41,560 "I'm really sorry, Salvatore Giammarresi." 671 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:51,000 Unfortunately we never got to know what Mario Francese thought. 672 00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,200 Unfortunately he won't... 673 00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,800 He won't be able to read anything. 674 00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,280 He won't be able to read anything because... 675 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:12,880 ...because... 676 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:35,560 Yet, after all these years I like to imagine him smile 677 00:47:35,720 --> 00:47:39,120 at the thought of that letter that was a little nonsensical, 678 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,040 but written from the heart. 679 00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:47,160 Men of Colorado, I'll say my goodbyes and I'll go! 680 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:48,680 Bye, Mario. 681 00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:11,520 The killer, Leoluca Bagarella, shot him a few meters away from his front door. 682 00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:28,040 That was on January the 26th, 1979. 683 00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,080 Giuseppe, what are you doing? 684 00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:59,280 Nothing, it's for the birds to come and keep him company. 685 00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,200 THE COURAGE OF TRUTH PAID WITH LIFE 686 00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:07,280 From that day Giuseppe never found peace until the law did him justice. 687 00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,720 The Court of Assizes of Palermo acknowledges criminal liability 688 00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:14,200 of the indicted Riina Salvatore, Madonia Francesco, 689 00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:16,680 Greco Michele and Bagarella Leoluca 690 00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,360 sentencing them to 30 years of imprisonment each. 691 00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,000 The total penalty meted out to the accused 692 00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,120 for the crime imputed to them, seems congruent and... 693 00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:30,520 Mario Francese was killed because he'd taken to heart the Garcia dam 694 00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:34,080 with which the Corleone clan was running a highly lucrative business. 695 00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:39,480 Having achieved all the things he'd dedicated his life to, 696 00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,000 the respect of his father's memory, 697 00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:46,840 Giuseppe Francese took his own life at the age of 36. 698 00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,920 His mother and siblings wrote in the "Giornale di Sicilia" 699 00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,000 "Giuseppe has gone." 700 00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:57,520 "He turned the corner fast from a life which marked him in his soul" 701 00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:01,000 "looking for peace up there in his father's embrace."