Franco Fiorvante, a lemon grower in Sicily dreams of someday owning his own orchard. He works for a man called Baron Zito. One day Zito asks the lemon grower and his brother to kidnap a 5-year-old child. When Franco does what is asked of him; he crosses the point of no return., setting in motion the birth of the world's first Mafia family. When Baron Zito asks him to arrange the kidnapping of a little boy, Franco crosses the point of no return, setting the making of the world’s first Mafia family in motion.
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This show originally aired on April 16, 2023