Three women raised inside one of Italy's most feared mafia clans decide the family business ends with them, and start working from the inside to bring it down.
What is The Good Mothers about?
The Good Mothers follows three women born into the 'Ndrangheta, the wealthy and violent crime network built into the fabric of Calabrian family life, as each reaches a breaking point with the world she was raised to protect. Rather than staying silent, they begin cooperating with a determined female prosecutor whose case depends entirely on testimony the clan never expected to lose. The series moves between courtroom tension and the domestic spaces where loyalty is enforced, showing how much is risked by anyone who steps outside the family code. Julian Jarrold and Elisa Amoruso direct, setting the 2023 series in Italy with a procedural backbone and a close, personal view of what defection actually costs.
About the cast
Gaia Girace, Micaela Ramazzotti, Valentina Bellè, and Barbara Chichiarelli lead the ensemble as women navigating the clan from different positions inside it, with Simona Distefano, Francesco Colella, and Marco Zingaro rounding out a cast built around the tension between family loyalty and the prosecutor's case.
Context & significance
The 'Ndrangheta is widely regarded as one of the most powerful organized crime networks in Europe, distinct from the more familiar Sicilian mafia in how tightly it binds power to blood relations. The Good Mothers is an Italy–United Arab Emirates production that draws on that structure to frame its crime drama, running roughly 45 minutes per episode.
Watching The Good Mothers on Ktime
The Good Mothers streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the series without relying on the original Italian dialogue. Anyone can read about the show on this page for free; watching the episodes only requires a K-Time account login, with no separate app-store step involved.