Elizabeth Smith, born in Norfolk, Virginia, a graduate of the University of Michigan, a master's degree from Detroit, a passion for singing, is poised to become mayor of a small Sicilian municipality dissolved for mafia reasons, Bolognetta, 20 minutes from Palermo on the road to Agrigento. An American mayor is the big surprise in a round of elections involving a number of small towns in Sicily. Elizabeth was the only candidate in the municipality because no one else accepted the challenge. She was voted in by 1,694 voters out of 1,846 who went to the polls. But why Bolognetta? "We had to renovate the house we bought in the historic center of Palermo," she explains, "and we looked for a house to rent for six months, finding a little heaven in Bolognetta, lots of greenery, good air and olive trees. We never left again. Then selling the house in Palermo, commuting. By motorcycle".