Sicily, a small fishing village surrounded by rubbish and wreckage. Behind it, a majestic mountain. This is where Arturo, the son of a prostitute who dies in childbirth, is born. Arturo is raised by the other prostitutes, but he moves in a strange way, looking at everyone without fear. He has a different, pure look in his eyes, and it brings hope.

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
Misericordia depicts a reality steeped in poverty, illiteracy and provincialism. It explores a nightmarish state of terrible degradation, increasingly ignored by society. It recounts the fragility of women, the violence that continues to be perpetuated against them, their desperate and boundless solitude.