The brief attempts of a new mafia trying to establish itself in the already impoverished and crime riddled area of Italy may have only lasted a few years, but these nightmarish times of bloodshed, murder, and mayhem left many dead, dying, or mourning. Centering on the life of a group of criminals in Salento in the 1980s, and the “paradise lost” of a man who renounces a stable, middle-class life to sink into an inferno of heroin, underground gambling dens, and organized crime.