In the mountains on the border of Italy and Austria, a Romanian trailer crashes into a ravine. Among the wreckage, the bodies of unknown women are found. In Santa Lucia station in Venice, on a compartment of an intercity train, an internationally known attorney is found dead… What connection could there be between these two tragedies? Commissioner Brunetti finds the answer in a dirty bar—a hub of a criminal network stretching far beyond Italy. But another murder must happen before justice begins to act.