Born and raised on the island, writer-director Julien Colonna (helmer of the mini-series Brutal: Taste Of Violence) knows his subject, manifest in the picture’s authenticity.

The film benefits from a lengthy, meticulous casting process, with non-professional ensemble comprised of intimidating, terrifying-looking men.

But for Lesia they are like family, surrogate uncles, a beloved godfather named Joseph (Thomas Bronzini), and a junior mobster Santu (Andrea Cossu) who treats her like his kid sister.

She is familiar with the rules of the game (no questions to be asked, no calls to be made from the phone in the house).  Thus, it soon after she illicitly calls her boyfriend from the villa itself that violence begins to escalate.

Colonna captures the sudden changes each time there’s another casualty in the blood feud. Gun crime is just an accepted part of the day to day fabric of life in Corsica. There’s eye for an eye inevitability of the cyclical waves of the endless.