The Earth

In this mix of lopsided Italian comedy and Southern film noir, Luigi, a mature professor of philosophy at the Milan university returns home to the Apulia town he had been forced to leave as an adolescent following a violent rebellion against his tyrant father. He becomes involved in the troubled atmosphere of a world he thought he had left behind forever, and finds himself thrust into the role of capo famiglia. Faced with events that upset him, the "professor" will feel his sense of justice vacillate to the point of no return: his stay in that land will entail a final showdown with his family, his lifetime companion and himself.