One Sunday morning in Catania, Bruno Costa, an employee of a telephone company, goes to the house of Anna Zanchi, the woman he is madly in love with, and finds her butchered corpse. Afraid of being accused of the murder, Bruno runs away. The police commissioner Giacomo Chimenti arrives at the crime scene and is entrusted with the investigation. Based on the homonymous story by Andrea Camilleri.

In Naples Luigi Reale, a young carabiniere, investigates a robbery involving Marco Portosalvo's runaway gangster, now hiding in the house of his neighbor Teresa. Based on the story of the same name by Diego De Silva.

On his mother's deathbed, a boy discovers he has a brother. What he will discover on his journey to the Island of Elba will be a chilling truth: his brother was murdered as a child.