Film Commission Torino Piemonte

Cosa Nostra, far from being just a form of organized crime, is also a vision of the world where all those involved are forced into complicity. This includes looking at the bandit with romantic eyes, or parents radically changing their expectations thus condemning their children to an unhappy and indecipherable childhood. Although children eyes are able to see feelings very clearly, they can’t understand what affects them. “Una storia Italiana” wants to show this aspect, too: the relationship between the director's mother and her mafioso brother – the uncle, or between mother and father and between child and parents. 

In a plot unfolding between the past and the presents, the documentary shows how personal choices always have consequences for other people, too, involving everyone in the logics of a tribe where they will be forced to fight for their whole life to free themselves from. Wishing for being relieved from what they have seen, they have experienced and from what they did.