Los leones de Sicilia

Ignazio and Paolo Florio arrived in Palermo in 1799 fleeing poverty and the earthquakes that shook their homeland, in Calabria. Although the beginnings are not easy, in a short time the brothers manage to turn their spice shop into the best in the city. Determined and tenacious, they expand the business with the silk they bring from England and will soon buy the lands and palaces of the ruined aristocracy. When Vincenzo, Paolo's son, takes the reins of Casa Florio, progress will already be unstoppable: with their own shipping company they will take Marsala from their wineries to the most exquisite palates in Europe and America. In Palermo its rise is observed with astonishment, but also with envy and contempt. For decades they will continue to be seen as a family of "foreigners" whose "blood reeks of sweat." No one is able to understand the extent to which a burning desire for social success beats in the Florio's hearts that will shape their lives for generations, for better and for worse.