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The essay aims to examine the origins of political choices of Nicola Sacco before his arrival in America. In 1907, in Torremaggiore, his hometown, there was a farm workers' strike with riots and disturbances in which lost the life a young woman, Filomena Rubino. The essay underlines the connections, direct or indirect, between this event and the training of the young Sacco. Moreover, the essay reconstructs the economic, political and social environment from which the young emigrant came. Note that Sacco, at the time of the strike, was sixteen and his house was only sixty meters from the place in which Filomena Rubino was killed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]