This Italian town can only be under the control of one of them. Bruna Fabbri and Rita Conti, the titular black widows, are mob bosses. Neither dissolving corpses in acid nor putting bullets in inconvenient people's heads intimidates them - especially since they can count on the help of their (are they really loyal?) hitwomen. These circumstances are where Maruzzella, Bruna's daughter, and Paolo, Rita's son, grow up like delicate flowers and dream of escaping the world of mafia to live an ordinary middle-class life, and maybe a house with a garden... Which, as you may have guessed, is an (almost) impossible plan in a world where ruthless godmothers baptize the streets of the town with blood.
"LOLA: Marriage is like taking a bath. As you get used to it, the water feels less hot. And then it gets ice-cold. I put the urn with Franco's ashes at my hairdresser's, among the shampoos and conditioners. As a result, we frequently see each other.
PIETRA: Claudio earned a bullet while in a brothel. The bullets pierced him and the whore he was lying on. I had him buried together with the whore as proof that I didn't hold a grudge against him. But I promised myself that I would never marry such a jerk again. As you get older, you get wiser. However, the real wisdom comes when you are lying in a coffin."
Black Widows is a wacky comedy filled with black humor that is also a frenetic interpretation of “Romeo and Juliet”. The play features as many as seventeen songs written to the tune of Italian hits, originally performed by Rosa Balistreri, among others.