Roberto is a student in a corrupt university where teachers sell exams and only hire friends and relatives.

The young "Commisario" detective Salve Montalbano, based in a village, solves mysterious crimes in Sicilia.

Two cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings the cousins back together and thrusts them deep into the heart of the mafia.