In Venice, an act of vandalism is committed. The culprit, who doesn’t even think to leave the crime scene, turns out to be none other than Brunetti’s wife, Paola. Paola’s inexplicable act disrupts the commissioner’s family life, while at work his boss keeps harassing him, demanding the immediate revelation of the audacious robbery and the suspicious death connected to it. This collision of professional and personal life puts Brunetti’s career at risk, and Paola’s secrets—which she, risking everything, does not want to reveal—push him to the brink of the abyss…