To save his crumbling and rapidly-depopulating rural town, its mayor fakes a gruesome murder to attract media attention. His plan initially succeeds, but soon the situation will spiral out of control.
The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of three 90 minutes episodes, broadcasted by RaiDue.
Raoul Duval is a physiotherapist in Cannes, dissatisfied with his marriage to the wealthy and capricious Véronique. When a notary informs him that he has inherited a fortune from an unknown biological father, Raoul sees it as a chance to free himself from his wife. But his joy is short-lived: a serious car accident leads him to discover an unknown woman in the hospital, hovering between life and death. He decides to take care of her, but soon realizes that she is connected to Véronique and that both women are involved in a complex scheme to deprive him of the inheritance.
A man is investigated for the murder of a person, even though he was in the company of a girl in a nightclub at the time; However, the young woman is afraid to testify for fear of retaliation, so she asks the man's family for a large sum of money in order to tell the truth to the police. Subsequently, other murders follow one another, including that of the real murderer, who was only a hitman, of the witness and of the witness's best friend. The suspect thus thinks that it is his business partner who wants to get involved but the truth turns out to be even more tangled.
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