Il sasso in bocca

The 'stone in the mouth' is the scar the mafia imprints on a betrayed corpse. The modern mafia's roots reach back to the birth of American capitalism in the Roosevelt era. The American Cosa Nostra adopts the same playbook as the Sicilian mafia: identical machinery, the same omertà, and equivalent power and terror. Giuseppe Ferrara, a journalist and writer, uses fragmented footage, archival clips, and current news to shape this film.