Everywhere in the world, Sicily is connected with the Mafia. The individual stories are alternately moving, funny, angry or sentimental. A shepherd tells of his nights watching the stars. A young woman tells how the villagers hate her because they believe she slept with American GIs. The confessions, usually with the whole village listening, bare secret parts of their souls.
People are capable of saying anything in front of a camera.
Naturally, that these people are from a small village increases their desire to communicate with the world. At the same time, I don't think people from the city are any less capable of opening up. Today people don't confess themselves in church, they confess themselves on television, on talk shows and interviews and surveys. This is happening everywhere. What Morelli does not realize is that he is deeply affected by what he hears.