A holiday in Sicily tests the relationship between Germana and Elisabetta, two friends in the grip of a sentimental crisis.
When a bloodthirsty serial killer begins murdering women with a carpenter’s set square, the story becomes a media sensation, inspiring kooks from all over the city to attempt to cash in on the publicity.
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
Amos, a watchmaker, loses his wife due to post-surgery complications. Destroyed by grief, he joins old friends Karl and Maner, former revolutionaries, to kidnap Prime Minister Ullmann, once their companion, to extort money from the state.