The investigation into Sarah Damiani's death continues, was it an accident or murder? What could the motive be for murdering an innocent teenage girl? As Valeria hunts for the truth, she must also deal with the fact that her mother, Lucia, has been released from prison, convicted seventeen years earlier for a terrible crime.

Mantovani family secrets start to unravel which adds further intrigue and suspension into the murder of Guglielmo Mantovani. Having discovered that her mother, Lucia, is about to come home, Valeria packs her bags and goes to live with Giorgio Lombardi; her boss, her boyfriend, and, the man who arrested her mother seventeen years earlier.