In the mountains on the border of Italy and Austria, a Romanian trailer crashes into a ravine. Among the wreckage, bodies of unknown women are found. At the Santa-Lucia station in Venice, the well-known attorney of international law is found dead in a compartment on an intercity train… What could possibly connect these two tragedies?
Commissioner Brunetti finds the answer in a dirty bar—the hub of a criminal network stretching far beyond Italy. But one more murder has to happen before justice begins to act.