In a small town in Sicily, the election for mayor is approaching. The town has been led for years by the fraudulent Gaetano Patan è, who is now ready to win the election again in all sorts of deceptive ways and retain his power. People have become accustomed to political whirlpools and political transactions and just want to drift with the tide. But this time the mayor's opponent is Pierpaolo Natoli, a 50-year-old honest professor, this is his first political experience, full of confidence and ideals. When he won the election after overcoming all kinds of adversity, he immediately opened a new era of the town legal system and began to respect the new order of the town. But are the people of Pietrammare ready to accept the new order?