Commissioner Guido Brunetti receives help from a colleague of the Carabinieri, investigating the murder of the owner of a small transportation company. But they are clearly holding something back and not telling everything, forcing Brunetti once again to rely on the services of the charming Eletta—his immediate boss’s secretary, who knows hacker tricks. Finding the solution is especially difficult because the commissioner’s attention is endlessly diverted by the mysterious Franca Marinello—a young wife of a major businessman, whose once beautiful face has been disfigured by plastic surgeons, turning it into a motionless mask. What secrets does this face hide? Brunetti won’t find the answer to that question until two more bloody murders happen.