Ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle finds himself unwittingly stepping into the role of a PI to investigate a murder that has torn a young family apart in this rustic mystery set in the beautiful Medieval village of Pitigliano, Italy.
One morning at his favorite café , Nico notices Cilia, a seven-year-old girl he has never seen before, frolicking with his dog on the floor. He later discovers she has left a note in his collar— Please help my babbo.
With help from Daniele of the local carabinieri, Nico discovers that Cilia’ s father, Saverio, has fled town following an unfortunate incident. His business partner was killed at their electronics store, and Saverio is the hot-headed local carabinieri’ s main suspect. Cilia’ s mother, Livia, who just moved to Gravigna to get away from Pitigliano’ s wagging tongues, asks Nico to find the real killer and hands him a long list of suspects. Against his better judgment, Nico accepts for Cilia’ s sake. Since the case is outside of Perillo and Daniele’ s jurisdiction, Nico finds himself on his own as he travels back and forth to Pitigliano, going down Livia’ s list of suspects one by one in pursuit of the truth. But will Livia and her little girl be happy with what Nico finds?