Michael Corleone is returning to the U.S. after the two-year exile to Sicily in which reader left him in The Godfather. But he is ordered to bring with him the young Sicilian bandit, Salvatore Guilia, who is the ufficial ruler of rthwestern Sicily. In his fight to make Sicilians free people, the young folk hero, based on the real-life Giulia of the 1940's, has made both the police and the Mafia his enemies. So when Don Croce Malo, chief of the Sicilian Mafia, and the policemen who has been tracking Guilia each offer to help Corleone find the elusive Robin Hood, betrayal seems inevitable.