Salvatore Cantalupo

Thirteen-year-old Marta moves from Switzerland to a small Calabrian town along with her mother and sister. There, she is sent to the local church to prepare for her Catholic confirmation and hopefully make new friends. But the religion she finds there—and how it dominates people’s lives—is strange.

One of cinema's most authentic depictions of organized crime, Matteo Garrone's shocking true-crime story—a tour-de-force adaptation of undercover reporter Roberto Saviano's best-selling exposé of the Camorra—links five disparate tales from Naples' Mafia underworld, where men and children are caught up in a corrupt system that extends from the housing projects to the world of haute couture.