On the first of May 1947, the bandit Salvatore Giuliano conducted a raid to the mountain pass Portella della Ginestra, with a view to capturing Sicily's most prominent communist, Giacomo Licausi. What actually happened was a regular massacre, leaving fourteen people dead and more than thirty wounded. In 1951, about a year after Giulano's violent death, his men are tried in Viterbo. Unconvinced by the official version, Gaspare Pasciotta's lawyer, decides to travel to Sicily and starts investigating the facts.

Benvenuti rilegge una pagina cupa della storia repubblicana, il processo a Salvatore Giuliano, alla luce delle suggestioni del sociologo Danilo Dolci, con l’ausilio degli atti della commissione antimafia e di documenti statunitensi.