A literary scandal whose echoes are still alive shook Italian cultural life in September 2014: to everyone's surprise, a convicted and confessed murderer had won that year's Sciascia Prize. His name was Giuseppe Grassonelli, although in his hometown everyone had known him since he was a child by the nickname "Weed". This book is his story. It begins when, still a teenager, he emigrates to Germany in search of the prosperity that Sicily denied him. The island seemed very far away, but an ancient curse pushed him hopelessly. During a brief visit he is wounded in the massacre where several of his relatives lose their lives: old unsettled scores with the mafia. A fierce revenge will come: renouncing everything, even love, Malerba will relentlessly and mercilessly pursue the executioners of his family. Bullets speak lawlessly when the state abdicates legitimate violence.