Since Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy from the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family adapts to the sweeping societal changes. Prince Don Fabrizio Salina that is Pragmatic but pragmatic allows Tancredi, his war hero nephew, to marry gauche's daughter, Angelica, bourgeois Don Calogero, as a way to keep the used level of comfort and political clout of your family.