While Valeria attempts to prove the Ariana's innocence, Monica confesses that Lucia, has always been innocent as well - she wasn't the one who killed her husband and Valeria's father, Mario. Who did?

The investigation into Sarah Daminai'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.

The dead body of 15-year-old Sara Damiani is found in a flooded basement. Her father, Giancarlo, receives the news while at a television studio where he is about to broadcast a national plea for help regarding his daughter's disappearance. In the homicide division of Turin's police force, Chief Inspector Valeria Ferro grabs the reigns of the investigation.

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.

Guido, Valeria's brother urges her to stop withdrawing from her family, which once again includes Lucia. After a particularly tense altercation, Lucia understands that her family will never be able to forgive her and that perhaps it would be best for her to disappear.

The body of a twenty-two-year-old women is found on the banks of the Po. Her name was Stefania and she worked in a nearby Benedictine monastery. Without overlooking the obvious trail that leads to the halls of the monastery, Valeria questions Stefania's lover, Michele.

In addition to trying to discover who murdered Stefania, Valeria also must figure out where her mother is. Valeria, locates Lucia, at the home of Monica, Lucia's former cell mate. Valeria, asks her mother to return home.

Arianna Lancise finds her 4-year-old daughter dead in the car, where she had left her for just several minutes. The lack of clues leads the police and public opinion to blame Arianna, but Valeria is convinced that she is completely innocent.

The homicide of Guglielmo Mantovani appears to be the tragic consequence of a home robbery gone wrong. However, Guglielmo's three children seem to be hiding something; Leonardo works in the family bank, Eva is a suffering artist, Filippo is an eternal teenager... not one of them seems particularly distraught.

Just when peace seems to have been restored to the Ferro household, Monica, Lucia's former cell mate, pays a visit to the house and upsets the harmony that mother and daughter were slowly trying to re-establish.

On a dreary, rainy day, Graziano Torri calls the police; his wife, Alessandra, who has just told him that she is pregnant, is missing. When Valeria arrives at the woman's home she finds a mysterious and recently dug hole...

A young Egyptian woman, Amina Mansour, is found dying in the hammam where she works after having been attacked with a knife. Amina has an Italian boyfriend and dresses in western clothes, it occurs to Valeria that this may not be taken very well by her family which is still extremely anchored in tradition.

Susanna Bianco, a woman hosted in a center for abused women, is killed in mysterious circumstances. Suspicions fall on Thomas, her husband, already accused of violence against his wife. Only the intuition of Valeria Ferro, inspector of the Turin homicide squad, manages to shed light on the facts.

1998. Valeria Ferro, teenager, reaches the lake house with her family. However, a threat looms over the serenity of the holiday: a mysterious car follows the Ferros in all their movements. Scared, Lucia tries to convince her husband and children to run away, but the man doesn't give in and she decides to call the police.

The body of Matteo Nardi, 6 years old, is found lifeless in the Novara countryside. The first investigations, conducted by the police officer Barbara Alessi, the child's aunt, seem to frame his father, already accused of sexual abuse. But the policemen of the Mobile of Turin exonerate the man and focus on Jacopo, his brother.

Inspector Valeria Ferro's team tracks down and arrests Jacopo Nardi on charges of killing his nephew Matteo. Simone, brother of the little victim and only witness, closes in an impenetrable silence, while Valeria discovers that, during the investigation, someone has sown false evidence.

Inspector Valeria Ferro investigates the death of a young woman, Lavinia Oliveira, suffocated in a complicated threesome erotic game. During the interrogations, Sonia Fabris, the other woman involved in the practice, reveals that the judge Franco Giordani had been invited to attend the performance. Thus, the manhunt begins.

The body of Claudio Rivetti, one of the owners of a brick factory, is found charred in the factory oven. The investigations lead Inspector Valeria Ferro to suspect Rami, a worker, lover of the victim's wife. Yet the boy seems to have nothing to do with the murder.

The discovery of a woman's body and the subsequent confession of her murder by Samuele Torti reopen the case of the disappearance of Livia Mori. According to the girl's mother, Torti could be responsible for the disappearance of her daughter. The investigations conducted by Inspector Valeria Ferro lead to an unexpected truth.

The death of Francesca Molino, an esteemed oncologist, is initially classified as a suicide. During the investigation, however, Inspector Valeria Ferro realizes that something is not right and she begins to suspect Fabio Serra, the father of a little patient of the doctor's. However, Serra wasn't the only one resentful of the woman.

The body of Eva, a Polish girl, is found in the rectory of the parish of Novareto. The investigations into the case lead the inspector of the Turin mobile, Valeria Ferro, to clash with Father Saverio, superior of the Monastery of San Giorgio where men of the church are hosted, removed from their communities for problems of various kinds.

Giorgia Vetere, a psychologist who works for the Army, is found dead in her office. The investigations conducted by Inspector Valeria Ferro lead to Fiorella, wife of Lieutenant Navarro, who fears a relationship between her husband and her woman. But Navarro himself is, for the same reason, among the suspects. When Fiorella denounces her husband, the case goes to the military court and Valeria is forced to call herself out.

Inspector Valeria Ferro investigates the case of two girls, Elena and Sofia, belonging to a sect, the Daughters of Maat, a commune that houses its followers. During the investigation, Valeria sheds light on the illicit and morbid relationships that bind the girls to Roberto and Gabriella, the founders of the sect.

Flavio, principal dancer of a dance company, is poisoned during rehearsals in the theater and Lavinia, his partner on stage, casually escapes the same fate. Inspector Valeria Ferro's investigations focus on Dario, the woman's husband, afflicted by serious health problems.

Inspector Valeria Ferro finds himself investigating the discovery of the body of an eighteen year old, Margherita Ricci, found with cuts on her wrists. The girl had a twin, Barbara, who committed suicide a few months before her by jumping into the well of the family farmhouse. But Valeria doesn't believe in the suicide hypothesis and decides to go to the bottom of it.