Secrets of the State

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 Sicilys 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 Giulanos violent death his men are tried in Viterbo Unconvinced by the official version Gaspare Pasciottas lawyer decides to travel to Sicily and starts investigating the facts