When a beautiful college student is found murdered in the catacombs beneath a monastary, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabinieri is assigned to investigate. Could the killer be a professor the student had been sleeping with? A blind monk who loved her? Or a mafia killing by the brutal Camorra? As Natalia investigates, the crime families of Naples go to war, and when one of her childhood friends is caught up in the violence Natalias loyalties are tested, and each move she makes threatens her own life and the lives of those she loves.