[3][4] In the Rione Sanità neighborhood of Naples, Antonio Barracano –known as “The Mayor”– is an undisputed authority amongst both common people and the Camorra, whose job is to settle disputes outside the law, even by unorthodox methods.

When he's asked to help a young man determined to kill his father, however, Barracano will have to make a choice regarding his self-imposed moral code.

[7][8] Game Today Magazine prized the acting proof of the cast ensemble, in particularly the performance of Francesco Di Leva, and defined the film: "[...] a Greek tragedy philologically wiped out by shootings, blood and violence, all kept off-screen.

With The Mayor of Rione Sanità, the Neapolitan director once more creates a contact between cinema and theatre, inspired by Polanski, Fassbinder, Kurosawa and certainly Hitchcock, moving his characters in large but closed spaces, and putting them in focus with lengthy close-ups".

[10] The Hollywood Reporter's Deborah Young wrote that Martone's film: "[..] is a challenging work whose verbal violence is engrossing but also repellent.