Nino and Alberto Caputo have never met, even if they are half brothers. Both are the sons of Calogero Caputo, the regretted mayor of Roccatella who had married Agata and had her first child, Nino, in the Sicilian village. Calogero, however, during a business trip to Milan had met Franca about her and had her second son, Alberto, abandoning the Sicilian family. Nino grew up without a father, with the wound of an abandonment that his mother never tried to mitigate. Alberto, on the other hand, had a father, a happy family, a university education, all that Nino was denied. After fifty years, the two meet for the first time as rivals, both candidates for the office of mayor in Roccatella.