The movie Lo Spietato tells the story of Santa Russo, who excelled in the criminal world of Italy in the 1980s. The crime and drama themed film was directed by Renato De Maria. The subject of the film, which is a co-production between Italy and France, is; During the golden years of the 'Ndrangheta Gang in the 1980s, Santa Russo was among the notable criminals in Milan. In the same years, a rapid economic growth was experienced in Milan. However, rapidly growing crime rates parallel this great economic development in the city. Growing up in the interior of the Calabria region, Santo Russo decides to follow his passion and lead a lawless life after his first thefts in the suburbs and his time in a reformatory. Santo, who became both the brains and the armed wing of a powerful and fearsome gang in a few years; He begins to engage in increasingly dirtier and more profitable businesses with theft, drug trafficking, money laundering and bloody executions, which he calls miracles. In this unbridled struggle to achieve wealth and the social status he desires, Santo Russo is torn between two women who live diametrically opposite lives and actually reflect different faces of himself: his obedient and loyal wife and his lover, an elusive, elegant and beautiful woman. This lawless life that Santo has chosen is full of inevitable choices and difficult decisions. Santo must decide who lives and who dies, choose between his passionate love and his family, and choose between his dream bourgeois life and a brutal life. The Ruthless; It tells the quarter-century journey of the Italian underworld through the story of Santo Russo, a yuppie-like gangster who lives in the ever-changing, dizzying reality of Milan during the golden years of fashion, easy money, avant-garde art and disco music.