Eleven-year-old protagonist who witnesses her father's assassination by a rival Mafia family in 1985. After her brother is killed six years later, she breaks the code of silence, hands over her detailed diaries to an anti-Mafia prosecutor as evidence, and is placed in witness protection in Rome.
Don Michele is Rita's father, whose murder serves as the foundational trauma of the narrative.
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