Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies…
| Writing | Andrea Camilleri | Novel |
| Directing | Gianluca Maria Tavarelli | Director |
| Writing | Valentina Alferj | Dialogue |
| Camera | Marco Pieroni | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Gianpaolo Catanzaro | Sound |
| Editing | Alessandro Haffler | Editor |
| Sound | Ralf Hildenbeutel | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Filippo Toso | Sound |
| Production | Nicola Serra | Producer |
| Production | Carlo Degli Esposti | Producer |
| Production | Barbara Daniele | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marina Roberti | Costume Designer |
| Writing | Francesco Bruni | Screenplay |
| Art | Luciano Ricceri | Production Design |
| Directing | Barbara Daniele | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Leonardo Marini | Screenplay |
| Production | Sandra Bonacchi | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Andrea Camilleri | Screenplay |
