Alisa Bystrova

Veronica, a young single mother with an adolescent son, is driving her car along a road by the sea. Suddenly, a car swerves into her lane, breaks the crash barrier and crashes into the sea. She reacts instinctively, terrified at having such a close brush with death, and carries on without stopping. By the time she returns to some sense of normality, it is too late to go back. She is trembling, crying. As she finds out in the newspapers the next day, the driver ends up in hospital in a coma. From then on, Veronica's life takes an unexpected twist.

A journalist of a local television in the Triveneto decides to carry out an in-depth analysis of a story that has particularly shaken him: an attempted robbery carried out by two uncensored people, with their faces covered by two masks: that of an Old Man and that of a Chinese. Under these two masks, the journalist discovers the face and life of the two protagonists: Michele, a mechanic about to marry a Russian girl, and Lucio, a traveling florist who runs the business with his sister without particular enthusiasm.

Luigi Di Santo is a professor of philosophy in Milan who returns to his Apulian hometown to finalize the sale, together with his brothers, of an old family farm. But this project is hampered by his violent stepbrother Aldo. Things degenerate further when the four brothers find themselves embroiled in a murder.

Coliandro is an inspector serving at the Bologna police headquarters who constantly finds himself embroiled, against his will, in matters bigger than himself. But Coliandro never backs down, even though his carelessness and investigative incompetence inevitably land him in trouble.

Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)