Sicily 1860. A plebiscite declared the final annexation of the island to the newly born Kingdom of Italy. A few years later, in Galati di Tortorici (now Galati Mamertino), an unknown Poor Clare nun carefully hid inside an ecclesiastical book the much-wanted diary of a local bandit. Leader of an armed band, he had tenaciously fought the Savoy troops for more than three years. The rebels' defeat had not calmed the hunt for the handwritten book, which had reached unimaginable heinous heights. But what was so compromising about the diary to become so fiercely hunted?

After the engaging short stories of Era il mio paese (2014) and Sicilitudine (2016), Cristiano Parafioriti concludes his Trilogy of Origins with this compelling historical novel. Punctuated by raging battles of arms and passion, red stories of blood and love intertwine, leading all the characters of those worn-out pages inevitably to an unavoidable and bloody final confrontation.