From Orgosolo to Volterra and Porto Azzurro, round trip. In the middle the drama of a young man, the victim of a sensational judicial error that leads him straight to life imprisonment. A tunnel following the murder of his brother-in-law, which took place in the 1930s. Then the war, the escape from prison under the bombings, the work for the Americans, the temptation of another life in the USA and the return to Barbagia, out of thirst for justice, not revenge. New vicissitudes, the truth that struggles to make its way, the return to prison between anguish and hope, probation when he is now ill and advanced in years. The story of Antioco Satgia, at the center of newspaper reports in the sixties and seventies, looks like a novel. And it is too. It is called "The Law". Originally the author, Romano Ruju, chooses “The Orgosolo Man”. Now his manuscript has been published, which remained for fifty years in an old chest. Not really forgotten since the author and the protagonist, who died a few years apart from each other, count on the availability of a publisher who, on the other hand, at the time - in 1971 - cannot be found. Now the municipality of Orgosolo is promoting the editorial initiative that posthumously rewards the work of Ruju, a Nuorese journalist and writer who died at 38 in 1973. And renews the rehabilitation of Satgia who comes out of Porto Azzurro prison on January 10, 1970. Final act of a massive mobilization that also involves the then bishop of Nuoro Giuseppe Melas to ask for the pardon of an innocent prisoner.
The first act of this harrowing judicial odyssey leads to the night of April 19, 1937, when Pasquale Manca is shot and killed at the entrance to his home in Orgosolo. The hereditary dispute over a house becomes the perfect motive for the investigators of the time. So Antioco Satgia, 28 years old with a passion for poetry, a swineherd by profession, despite spending that night at the home of a friend, Bore, who is the brother of his girlfriend Antonia Mereu, ends up in prison.
