Plot

This movie recounts the real story of Graziella Campagna, a Sicilian 17 yr old girl killed by the mafia, and of their relatives' battle to obtain justice. Graziella Campagna worked in a laundry. One day a customer forgot his notebook in a cloth. She found it and handed it over to her supervisor, who gave it back to the customer. This was Graziella's death sentence. The customer, in fact, was not the engineer Toni Cannata, as he said, but actually mafia boss Gerlando Alberti. Fearing that she could have learnt the truth and also the names of his accomplices, the mafioso let torture and kill her. The movie recounts her story and the story of the following investigations and trials. The participation of Piero Campagna, Graziella's brother and policeman, in the investigations will contribute to uncover a network of connivances and sidetrackings even at institutional levels.—Anonymous

Sicily 1985. Graziella is a 17 years old girl who works in a dry cleaners, "La Regina".

Suddenly Graziella disappears. Everyone assumes it is the usual elopement. Only her brother, the Carabiniere Pietro, is not convinced and begins to investigate. His suspicious are unfortunately found to be true. Graziella is dead, barbarously killed by bullets from a sawn-off shotgun. It is the usual type of execution reserved for the great Mafia bosses in a province which is normally quiet, like that of Messina. What had this girl done to deserve such a tragic end? A poor girl who earned only 150,000 lire a month to help her family and probably one day she would have left her lowly occupation, she would have married her boyfriend and had childre, But it was not to be. Graziella had seen things in the dry cleaners that she should not have seen and that had led her to her destiny in a blind alley.