MAX - THE SCOT FREE

Shark or better, caiman, we become when the ambition, the aggressiveness of living, the injuries also indirectly, deeply affect the psyche of a strong and aware of our destiny. If, then he, to a certain extent, feels himself like a shaman, here comes the character of the very young Massimiliano (Max) Seleni. Who, obliged to live an existence of hardship in a country that offers no alternative but to be a bakery boy, makes, almost unconscious, his first theft, which will allow him to take a train to get to the legendary Milano. A post-war Milano where everyone would have the ambition to grow up, will manage to crown, at least in part, his dreams. Max's, for a while, is quite modest. Being able to scrape together a nest egg to help the poor family with the purchase of a house, since they have always lived in a warehouse-store and, for him, open the road to the success. To achieve it. However, he must face pitfalls and accept compromises even with the Neapolitan underground. A providential friend will help him, who will become more than a big brother for him: Marcello.

Together they will first tackle a hard work of transporting construction material, then smuggling cigarettes from Switzerland, sell a truck and with the proceeds, since the two friends make a joint cash, they will get the acquisition of a building to a price ridiculous and, finally, with its sale at ten times the price paid, the big deal: the purchase by the US command of a beautiful military transport ship, which over time and with the help of the good shipping agent, Amilcare Barca and Salvatore, an officer of the merchant navy, will transform Max into a wealthy ship owner, even if his character is massively hardened by the loss of his dear brother, killed prodigiously in a shooting ordered by the Neapolitan Guappo of Rocco Prevete, their acolyte in a bribe operation. Max will never forgive that crime and to oppose it. He will marry her good-looking sister. Having become rich in billions, he will find a way to put into action. What imposed himself by long ago and for a whopping 60-year-old itch sells all his ships and throws himself into the political arena, coming to become head of government, flanked by experts, who will be friends as long hi will not be ...