"Enea Zottìa is a first rate policeman, a great romantic, a little big Gatsby." - Sette

A villa with a lakeview, a placid Christmas holiday, a guest with a mysterious past: a new case for inspector Zottìa.

Inspector Enea Zottìa is even more involved with his new love, Serena, and he accepts to join her in a splendid villa on the enchanting hills around Lake Maggiore, where she is spending Christmas holidays with some friends. Everything seems to flow quiet and placid, until a night one of the guests is found dead in his room. With his peculiar method, following his feelings, Zottìa will find out that some mysteries are deep-rooted and started a long way off.