 Fact based story about the political battle that was waged against the Mafia in Sicily during the late 1980 s and early 1990 s. Chazz Palminteri plays Giovanni Falcone, a crusading prosecutor who tried to use money trails as a way to attack the mobsters. He is aided by a former mobster (F. Murray Abraham) who volunteers to turn state s evidence after his sons are killed by a renegade mob chief. With the mobster s help, the prosecutor was able to obtain over 300 convictions.