On an August night of an indeterminate year, Judge Rosario Saracini leaves the Siena courthouse for the last time, to begin a quiet retirement. Just as he is entering his home, a stranger gives him a “Super 8mm” film. It contains the images of the kidnapping of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro that took place in via Fani, in Rome, in 1978. It is a shocking document, and it leads the Judge to start his own investigation, possibly the most important one in the whole history of the Italian Republic. Together with Branco, his bodyguard, and his former colleague Fernanda, Saracini works to reconstruct the exact phases of the assault.

Their studies lead to the uncovering of several facts that had so far remained unknown: the presence of an officer of SISMI (the military intelligence service) on the scene, the three committees created by Moro’s successor, Cossiga, whose members were all affiliated with the secret Masonic lodge P2, the links with the American secret services... But from the outside, ominous signals start arriving: the investigation must not continue. And Saracini, called to Rome by Italy’s chief prosecutor, will finally come face to face with the obscure forces that want to stop him.

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