Which means "The transaction", a movie of the "Young Montalbano" series. I liked this one, it was more sentimental and less confusing. Again it sort of had three different themes going on: 1. a robbery at a little bank that turns out to be affiliated to the Sinagra family. They had taken the money in their care and put up a theft lie to cover it up, then killed a robber of the Cuffaro family to make it look like they did it, but Salvo understood the scheme and gave an interview hoping to avoid a mafia war. The two family 'made up' with a transaction, which includes the murder of the people responsible. One is killed but Fazio finds the other one who accepts to talk to save his life.
2. A man is murdered, the same man that a seer called 'the murderer'. Montalbano finds out that with the italian SS he betrayed the partisans and killed one of them, that the sees was the sister of his victim, and that even if he was around 70 years old he wanted to get married. Salvo looks for the seer, but when he finds her she confesses she had been looking for her brother's murderer for a long time, but also that she really has a gift, and saw that the man had little time to live, that a woman would have killed him. Montalbano remembers a woman he found walking on the road that night, when he drove her home. He goes there and she confesses everything. They had loved each other as kids but could not be together because their families were enemies. They had kept loving each other, but could not spend time together. They had made a deal that whoever of them did fall in love with someone else would have paid with life the betrayal, and she had not forgotten, so she made him pay by shooting him in the head.
3. After last episode's crisis, Salvo has not seen or heard from Livia. He starts going out with that young bank director we had already met; he was hesitant, almost frightened and at the same time something make him want to see her again (well, she is nice and beautiful so..). They kiss a lot but go no further because he doesn't feel like it. She asks him to join her in Madrid, but he arrives at the airport to see that there is also a flight to Genova. Which girl does he really want? We knew already of course, so yes he takes the flight to Genova, goes to Livia's house and they finally hug again. Happy ending :-) Obviously.
Again, I so did not like his constant sighing while speaking, it's very annoying and I can't understand why he keeps doing it, is it because it's the only way he can make the accent or simply because he thinks it is more 'intense' this way? Either way it's so annoying that I might stop watching it just for that.
I liked the rest enough, and also the story with this Stella was hot and the whole thing was romantic. The thing I cared less was the robbery, but it was ok and was useful to make Salvo in contact with Stella, to ask her about banks.
We also see his father here, and strangely they seemed to be getting along fine, no trace of the hostility I remember in old-Montalbano.
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