Inspector Elsa Giralt is wiped out. She used to be the first in her class but now her husband has left her for her best friend and her police partner is quadriplegic as a consequence of a shooting… in which she thinks she could have done something else. Too much punishment for someone who had not done anything to deserve it. Now, Elsa looks for oblivion - momentary or permanent, whichever comes first - inside a bottle of gin. But life is capricious and one morning, at the door of her home, the corpse of a young woman appears. A very beautiful young woman, let it be said, who has died with a stab in the side and a smile on her face. Elsa clutches at straws and pays her full attention to the case, aware that it may be her last chance before seeing her career, and even her life, evaporated into the nothingness. With the unexpected help of Santi – a new colleague who has not been told that the Dirty Harry is no longer the best model for a police officer - she begins to pull the thread unti