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The first episode of drama series La Vita Promessa 2 (Escape from Mafia) season 2 broadcast on Sunday, February 23 by Rai 1 at 9.25pm recorded 4.5 mln viewers with an audience share of 19.2%. In the same slot, Canale 5 aired Live - Non è la d'Urso with 2.1 mln viewers and an audience share of 13%.

Escape from Mafia 2 directed by Ricky Tognazzi is a story focused on Carmela Carrizzo (Luisa Ranieri) and her family.
She was forced to move in New York after the murder of her husband.
It'a story of a Sicilian family leaving Italy as many other families did in the greatest modern migratory movements in recent history.
Carmela is a beautiful and brave woman in her 30ies who fights many obstacles to obtain the promised life for herself and her family.

After the great success of the first season, the second season tells the story of the Rizzo’s family through a different historical period: the Great Depression. Carmela
and her children have to face those terrible years of economic crisis and a community internal fight. The tradition of neorealism is merged with the imagery of Italian-American cinema and focuses on a figure of a combative mother.

The series in 3 episodes is produced by Picomedia with Rai Fiction and it's distributed by Rai com