An aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping changes, as Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy from the 1860s. Prince Don Fabrizio Salina that is pragmatic although Pragmatic lets his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, as a way to maintain the family amount of relaxation and political clout.