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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 shreds of Emiliano's body are found in a pigsty. Erica was joined by her husband Mauro, who is desperately looking for cocaine. Carlo, having just escaped an assassination attempt, learns of his brother's tragic death and begins to suspect his wife's possible involvement.

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.

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.

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.

A robbery at an armored car goes badly. Two of the three robbers, Carmine and Rocco, lose their lives, the third accomplice, Cesare Mastrangeli, flees with the loot. Miranda, wife of the fugitive robber, is found dead in her apartment that same morning. Inspector Valeria Ferro's suspicions are all for the wife of one of the two villains who died but only the arrest of the fugitive can clarify the situation.

Marta Valente is bound and gagged while the corpse of her son Christian, a boy with severe mental retardation, and of Luigi Merlo, director of the hippotherapy center for the disabled who treated the young man, lie a few meters away. The first hypothesis formulated by Inspector Valeria Ferro is that of a robbery but the presence of an "inconvenient" witness reveals much more.

Diego Padovano, who is tailing Emiliano Nesta on behalf of his brother Carlo, arrives at a motel where different stories intersect: Emiliano having a clandestine relationship with Ambra, his brother's wife; Erica, who runs away from her husband with a load of cocaine ovules; Orazio, the owner of the structure, who spies on everyone and who discovers a criminal plan against Carlo Nesta.

Giancarlo, chef of a starred restaurant, is found dead in the cold room. Inspector Valeria Ferro's investigations focus on her team including Cristina, a promising sour-chef struggling with a degenerative disease, Alberto, brother of the deceased and former deputy and Francesco, a talented young man. The criminal event risks tarnishing the restaurant's fame, but Valeria soon realizes that the kitchen hides many secrets.

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 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.

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.

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.

Entrepreneur Pietro Kummel is found dead on the road, next to his car. Acquitted in cassation, the man has just been released from prison, escaping a nine-year prison sentence for being involved in an accident in his factory. Inspector Valeria Ferro's investigations are immediately directed towards the families of the victims, but, little by little, it becomes clear that Kummel's enemies are numerous.

Investigations into the death of Cristian, a wrestler, lead Inspector Valeria Ferro to immerse himself in the world of wrestling and gyms. Here she meets the girl of the murdered and Tony Speranza, owner of the gym where the young wrestler trained and involved in trafficking in doping substances.

Inspector Valeria Ferro investigates the death of a girl, Azzurra, stabbed in her bed after a night at the disco where she met Gabriele, a boy she met in a chat. But that evening, there were also other people in the club who all turn out to be pawns in a dangerous game.

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.